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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

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The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

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Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

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Comedy keeps the heart sweet.

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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

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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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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.

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Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

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Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

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There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

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I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

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The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

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I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

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You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

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It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

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Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

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