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There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

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Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

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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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I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

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The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

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Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

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The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

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If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

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it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

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I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

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An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

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Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

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Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

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There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

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