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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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Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

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Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

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A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

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He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

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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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I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

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There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

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I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

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Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

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We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

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Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.

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Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

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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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It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

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If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

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