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Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

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It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

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His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

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I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

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Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

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When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

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To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

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There is only one good sex. The female one.

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The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

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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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I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

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There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

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None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.

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A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

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There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

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