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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

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Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

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If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

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There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

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You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

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The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were.

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All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

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You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

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The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

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I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

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Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

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The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

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Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

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