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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.

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The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.

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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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The covers of this book are too far apart.

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Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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Write drunk; edit sober.

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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

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I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

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

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