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He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.

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But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

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I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

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Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

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If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

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There is no sin greater than ignorance.

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There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

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Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

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One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man

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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die

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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

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One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

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Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot!

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