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When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

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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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None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

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Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

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But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

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Life is short, break the rules.

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Strange is the man who practices his religion.

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Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

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A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true--humor.

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I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

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Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

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I like criticism, but it must be my way.

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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

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The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

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