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Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

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Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

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It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

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Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

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Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

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Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

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There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

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That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

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Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

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Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

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The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

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I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

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