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There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

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Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

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As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

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Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

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If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

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Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea.

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My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

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A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

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They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

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Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

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I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

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A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

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This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

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Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

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