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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

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God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

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There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.

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One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

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You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

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There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

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Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

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I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.

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Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

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Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

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A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

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