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Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

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Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

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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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I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

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I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

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The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely noticeable... The dull and ignorant physician day and night, and all the days and all the nights, drenched his patient with vast and hideous doses of the most repulsive drugs to be found in the store´s stock. He kept him religion sick for eighteen centuries, and allowed him not a well day during all that time.

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

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A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

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I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

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I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

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We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

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A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

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For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

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Brooklyn praise is half slander.

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