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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

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No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

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

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

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Brooklyn praise is half slander.

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The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

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Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.

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God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

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Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?

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The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

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If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

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The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

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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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When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

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What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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