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We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

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One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

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The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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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 played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

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Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

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Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

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It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

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I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

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Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

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Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

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Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

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That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.

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I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

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The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

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A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.

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