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It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

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...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

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Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

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It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven.

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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

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In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

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We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

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The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

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Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

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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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These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.

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Love heightens all senses - except the common.

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I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

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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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I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

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I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

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