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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

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In literature imitations do not imitate.

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Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

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Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.

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Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

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The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

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To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

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An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

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I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

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The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

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