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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

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A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

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Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

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A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

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I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

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The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic.

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If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

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Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

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....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

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My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

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Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

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Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

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Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

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