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it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

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One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

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Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

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So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

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Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

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Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

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Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

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If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go.

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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

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A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

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It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

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