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I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

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Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

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For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

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when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

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My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

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At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.

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Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

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Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

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

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Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.

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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

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A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

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There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

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