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A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

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Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

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Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

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I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

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It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

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Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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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 human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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