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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

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The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

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Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

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Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

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The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

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The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic.

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What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

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Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

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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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Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

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Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

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Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

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A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

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If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

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