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The Navy is very old and very wise.

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No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.

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It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

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No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!

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There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

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Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.

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I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.

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Each dog barks in his own yard!

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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

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Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

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It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

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They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods

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God help us for we knew the worst too young.

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We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

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