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An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

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Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

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There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.

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To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

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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; nothing can prevent it.

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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

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there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

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All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

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Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

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The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

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You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.

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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

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