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An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

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Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

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I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.

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An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

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It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.

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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true--humor.

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The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

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... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

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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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I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

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It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

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But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

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...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

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