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In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

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I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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Never tell a lie-except for practice.

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Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

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I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it.

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The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

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The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

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But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

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The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

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Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

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There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

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You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

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