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Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

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Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

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when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

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The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

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I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

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All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

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No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

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The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

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... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

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A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

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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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Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

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The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

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

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The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

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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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The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

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