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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

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No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

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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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A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

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Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

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The southerner talks music.

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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

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There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

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Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

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I can live for two months on a good compliment.

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