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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

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Tight pants are just uncomfortable.

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All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

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It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

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It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.

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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

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The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

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The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

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There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

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I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

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Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

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And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.

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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

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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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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

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Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

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There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

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The average man don't like trouble and danger.

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