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Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

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We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

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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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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

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I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

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It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

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Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

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Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

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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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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

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So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far more widely distributed. But it has its value, I think. The hard and sordid things of life are too hard and too sordid and too cruel for us to know and touch them year after year without some mitigating influence, some kindly veil to draw over them, from time to time, to blur the craggy outlines, and make the thorns less sharp and the cruelties less malignant.

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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

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To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

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A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

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He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

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