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His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change and external circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilant after declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set up structures that support you staying on target.

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Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

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Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

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The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it.

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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

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July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

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It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

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My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

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Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

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Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

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I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

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It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

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