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Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

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You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

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A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

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Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

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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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I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

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Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

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My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it, as I am, every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination, maybe of indolence, shifts the cargo.

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

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Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

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

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

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And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

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If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

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