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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

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An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

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Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

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[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

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To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

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I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.

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I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

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I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

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Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

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One must travel, to learn.

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God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

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Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

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When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.

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How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

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