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We are all alike, on the inside.

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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.

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Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.

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It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.

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We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.

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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

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A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.

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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

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There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

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Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

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A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

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Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.

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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

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The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.

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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

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The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

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We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

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Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

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