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When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?

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If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

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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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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

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As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

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There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

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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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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

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A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

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It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me.

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