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By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

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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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Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

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You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

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There is only one good sex. The female one.

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No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

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The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

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Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

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But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

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Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

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Imagination labors best in distant fields.

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Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

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To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

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Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

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