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You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

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In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

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Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows--it must grow smaller or larger, better or worse--it cannot stand still. In other words, we change--and must change, constantly, and keep on changing as long as we live. What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he's stuck in a rut.

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There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

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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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Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

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As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'

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One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

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If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

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Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

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An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

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I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.

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Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

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The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

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My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

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