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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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Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

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But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

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The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

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Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

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Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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Geological time is not money.

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Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

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The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

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A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

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The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

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There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

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when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

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Better a broken promise than none at all.

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Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

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The problem with education is school.

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Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

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