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One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

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

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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

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If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

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Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

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Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

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My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

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The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.

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To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

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There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

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Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

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Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

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Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

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A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

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