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I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.

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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

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Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

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The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

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But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

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I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

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Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

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Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

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The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

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None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

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This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for the things you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personal belief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or evidence to the contrary.

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Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

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