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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

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'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.

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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

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When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

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On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!

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I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

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I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.

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Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!

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Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.

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Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

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Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'

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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?

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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

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One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

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Believe the best of everybody.

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Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.

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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.

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Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

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God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.

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