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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

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Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

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I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

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Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

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I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

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I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

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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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What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

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On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

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When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

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She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

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Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

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There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

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All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

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But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

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