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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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It is better to give than receive- especially advice.

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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

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I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

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I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

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The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

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Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

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Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

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Dance like nobody's looking.

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They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

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If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

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When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

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