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Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

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That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then he can think better. I do not care much for this one; his ears are not alike; still, editor suggests the sound of Edward, and he will do. I could make him better if I had a model, but I made this one from memory. But is no particular matter; they all look alike, anyway. They are conceited and troublesome, and don't pay enough.

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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

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Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

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There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

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Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

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...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

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The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

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The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

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

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I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

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That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

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Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

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...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

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Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

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Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

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If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

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