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I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

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Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

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To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

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America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

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If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth and, diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child, settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and sting, worry and fret and madden the worn and tried mother who watches by the child and humbly prays for mercy and relief with the pathetic faith of the deceived and the unteachable.

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Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

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France has usually been governed by prostitutes

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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

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Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

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To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

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The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

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Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

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...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

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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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