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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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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

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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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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

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We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

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They did not know it was impossible so they did it

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Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.

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All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

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I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

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What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

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To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

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The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

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There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.

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