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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

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It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

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I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

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When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

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I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

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Do something everyday that you don't want to do.

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He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

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None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

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It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

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Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

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Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

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Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

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There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

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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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Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

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We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

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