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It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

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God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

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There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

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Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

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As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them in rotation (there are only two or three thousand of them), stick to it, commit two or three every day, and by and by you will be proof against them. When you are through you will be proof against all sins and morally perfect. You will be vaccinated against every possible commission of them. This is the only way.

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A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.

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Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

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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 isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

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when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

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Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

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Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

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Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

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Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

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