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My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

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Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

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There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

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When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

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It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

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You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

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I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

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If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

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We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

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But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

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Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

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