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My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

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Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

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She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

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The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

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There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

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Experience comes from bad judgment.

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When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

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

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More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

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Don't wait the time is never just right.

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Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

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Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

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Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

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I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.

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If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

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Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

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War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

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