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Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

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When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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The truth hurts, but silence kills.

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I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

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The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

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I am not an American. I am the American.

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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

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What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

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We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.

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I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.

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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

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Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

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when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

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It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

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There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

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