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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

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Never mistake motion for progress.

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December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

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He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

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When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

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It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

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I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

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The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

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I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

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To eat is human, to digest, divine

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Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

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God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

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Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

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All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

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Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

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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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A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

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