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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

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Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)

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I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

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Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

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There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

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In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

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There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

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Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

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We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

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All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

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To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

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Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.

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It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

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