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Children have but little charity for one another's defects

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Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

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A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.

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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

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Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

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It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

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The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

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That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.

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To be busy is man's only happiness.

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

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The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

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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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The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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