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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

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

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

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There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

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[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

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If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.

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The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

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There is no accounting for human beings.

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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

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It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

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The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

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People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

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The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

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