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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

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Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

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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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I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

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The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

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The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

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A German joke is no laughing matter.

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...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

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Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

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It's not as bad as it sounds.

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I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

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God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.

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The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

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Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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