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The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

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Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

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All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

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The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

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How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

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When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.

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When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!

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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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The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

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Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

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Let us save the tomorrows for work.

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Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

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There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

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Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

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It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

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I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

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