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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

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The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

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I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

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Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

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What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

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Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

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To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

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I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

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I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

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The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

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Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

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My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

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There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

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It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

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I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.

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It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

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There isn't any way to libel the human race.

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Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

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