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Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

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The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

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Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

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Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.

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Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

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Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

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Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

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The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.

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A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he is a jackass; but anobleman is not valuable because he is a jackass. It is a mixture that is always ineffectual, and should never have been attempted in the first place. And yet, once you start a mistake, the trouble is done and you never know what is going to come of it.

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One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

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Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

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It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.

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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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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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I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

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