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My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

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There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.

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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

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Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

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Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

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Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

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All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

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God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

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We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

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Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

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Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

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Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ.

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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

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He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.

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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

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War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

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The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

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