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If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

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I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

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It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

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To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

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The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

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Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.

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A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

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The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

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I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

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Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

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It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

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I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

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No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

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