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A man may have no bad habits and have worse

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When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

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Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

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I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

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I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

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Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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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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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

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All generalizations are false, including this one.

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Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

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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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