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Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

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Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

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Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

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The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

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Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

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The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

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Children and fools always speak the truth

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Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

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I was born modest, but it didn't last.

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How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.

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One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

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This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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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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I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

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There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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Everything human is pathetic

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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

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