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It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

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If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

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By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

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An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

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People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

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If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

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Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

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We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

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Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

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I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

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I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

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Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

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