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It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

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Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.

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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

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I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

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Never tell a lie-except for practice.

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The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.

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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

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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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Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

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The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

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I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

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I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

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