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Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

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Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, 'Where's your haggis?' and the Fijan would sigh and say, 'Where's your missionary?'

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A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

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Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling 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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I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

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To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

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There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

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The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

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It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

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Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

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The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

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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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If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

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