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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

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Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

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I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

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It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

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Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

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Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

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I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

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Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

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Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

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There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

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It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

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