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I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.

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Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

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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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A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

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To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

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All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

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No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

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The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

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It is easier to stay out than get out.

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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

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The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

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The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

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Books are the liberated spirits of men.

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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

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

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