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To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

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A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

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From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.

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The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

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The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.

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Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

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Chastity - you can carry it too far.

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Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

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Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

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The southerner talks music.

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A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

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There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

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Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

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When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

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I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

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Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

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