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I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

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The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

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No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

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Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

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It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

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The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

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Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

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Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

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No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.

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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.

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Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

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Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

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