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Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

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The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

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Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are.

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History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

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Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

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The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

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

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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

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Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.

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How slow and still the time did drag along.

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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

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Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

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To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

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