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That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

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Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

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It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

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All gods are better than their reputation.

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The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

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If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

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The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

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No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

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Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.

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It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

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I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

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the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

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In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

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Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

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A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

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...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

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Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

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