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If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

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When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.

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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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If I had more time, I would have written less.

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A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

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Travel is fatal to bigotry.

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Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

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A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

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Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

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And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows

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An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

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I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.

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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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Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

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