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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

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Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

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There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

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Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

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...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

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Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

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Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

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I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.

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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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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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

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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

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We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

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Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

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If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

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