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Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

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Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

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Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

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In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

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Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

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It is higher and nobler to be kind.

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The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

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He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

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Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

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But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

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