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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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They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

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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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Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

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At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

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To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

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A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

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We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

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Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

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We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

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I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

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Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

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The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

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There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

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There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

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