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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

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When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

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An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

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The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young, the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom, and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above, it was green with vegetation, and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.

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Whatever you say, say it with conviction

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There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

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...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

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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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He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company--for he did all the talking.

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If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

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