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The secret of getting ahead is getting started

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The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

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A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

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Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!

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I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

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There is no humor in heaven.

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Tough times teach trust.

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The secret of making progress is to get started.

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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

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I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

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There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

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There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

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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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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

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