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To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

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It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

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The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.

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I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

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The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

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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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The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

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There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

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I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

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No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

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Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

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

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If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.

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Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

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Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

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[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

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Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

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