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To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

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A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

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There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

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And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

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You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

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We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

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It is your human environment that makes climate

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Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

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Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.

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Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

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I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

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