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The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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

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A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

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I don't want no better book than what your face is.

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How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.

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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

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My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

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An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

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Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!

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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

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From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

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