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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

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I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

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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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Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

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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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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

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You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

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It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.

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France has usually been governed by prostitutes

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Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

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Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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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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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

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I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

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If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

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I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

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If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.

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