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I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

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Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

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Homely truth is unpalatable.

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The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

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I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

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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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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

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Too much is just enough.

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Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

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In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

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All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

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To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

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It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

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Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

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There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.

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The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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