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This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

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There is no humor in heaven.

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I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

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

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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

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The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

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To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.

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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

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It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

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As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

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Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

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Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

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A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

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Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

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