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None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

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And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows

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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

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Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

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I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

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The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

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A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

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There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

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I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

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There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

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I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

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Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

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It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

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Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

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