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There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

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It's so damned humiliating.

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Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

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It is your human environment that makes climate

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The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

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Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

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It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

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Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

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The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

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The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

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It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

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To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

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The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

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I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

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