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And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

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As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

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There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

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There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of lifelife's "experiences"are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.

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....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

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It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

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When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

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I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

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Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

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A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

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when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

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None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

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