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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

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Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.

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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

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Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.

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I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

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No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

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God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

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If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

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We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

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There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of lifelife's "experiences"are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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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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The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

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A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

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If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

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The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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