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If I had more time, I would have written less.

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It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

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When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.

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A wanton waste of projectiles.

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God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

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If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

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I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

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I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

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I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?

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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

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To eat is human, to digest, divine

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To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

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The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

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The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

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I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

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There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

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The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

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There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

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