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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

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A good friend will always stab you in the front.

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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

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Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons.

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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

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