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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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Life is short, break the rules.

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It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

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Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

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It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

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

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

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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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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 far apart.

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Imagination labors best in distant fields.

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There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

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The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

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If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

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Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.

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What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

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There is no security in life, only opportunity.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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