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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

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Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

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Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

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Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

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Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

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Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

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If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

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I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

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Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

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The ancients stole all our ideas from us.

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The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

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It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

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The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

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A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

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If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

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What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

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