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You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

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A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

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What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

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The best of us would rather be popular than right.

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We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

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I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

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Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

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Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

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Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

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The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

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