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I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

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Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

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All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

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The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

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Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

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I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.

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One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

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In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

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Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

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It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

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Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are.

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