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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

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...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

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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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Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

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When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

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Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

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the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.

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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

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There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

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There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

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There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

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I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

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An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

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