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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.

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Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

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It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

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All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

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My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

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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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Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

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I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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First catch your Boer, then kick him.

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The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

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When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

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Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

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What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

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