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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

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Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

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Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

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It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.

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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

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Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

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No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

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Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

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Homely truth is unpalatable.

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I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

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There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

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A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

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Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

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I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

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