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He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

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I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

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When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.

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If one is honest there is no need to remember.

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Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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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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Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

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It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

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My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

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Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

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We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

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Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

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The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

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You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

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The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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