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Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

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When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

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Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.

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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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If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

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I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

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Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

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I don't want no better book than what your face is.

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But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

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It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

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Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.

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The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two-thirds of his mind . writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we "modify" before we print.

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The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

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Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

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