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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

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

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The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

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A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

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More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.

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[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

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I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

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It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

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From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.

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I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

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Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

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I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

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Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

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Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

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