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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

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Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

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To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

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I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

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If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

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More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

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If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

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Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

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Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

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To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

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There is no accounting for human beings.

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Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

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