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To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

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That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

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The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

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In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

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I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

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There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity nor his son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled.

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You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

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What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

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If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

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It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

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No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

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Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

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You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

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Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

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Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

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Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

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There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

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When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

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