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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

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Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

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The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

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

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I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

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Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

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All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

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We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

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That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then he can think better. I do not care much for this one; his ears are not alike; still, editor suggests the sound of Edward, and he will do. I could make him better if I had a model, but I made this one from memory. But is no particular matter; they all look alike, anyway. They are conceited and troublesome, and don't pay enough.

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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

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When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

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The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

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There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

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