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The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

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In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

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The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

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All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

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Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

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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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I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

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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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History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

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the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

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Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

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It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

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To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

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No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

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Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

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When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is an impossible task. You can certainly experience moments in absence of fear, however accept that fear will be with you whenever you are in the process of living creatively. The challenge is to go ahead regardless, simply notice the feeling and manage being courageous.

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No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

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