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Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

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We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

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They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.

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Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

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the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

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A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

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A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

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Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.

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Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

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Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.

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To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

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If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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