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Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

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The best of us would rather be popular than right.

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Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

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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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How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

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Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

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Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

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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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Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

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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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Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

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The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

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The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

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It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

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My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

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Tight pants are just uncomfortable.

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Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

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