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- Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be…
- Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through…
- The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one;…
- It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get…
- Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
- There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner…
- Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to…
- 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…
- To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.
- One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.
- Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For…
- Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's…
- If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
- The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by…
- My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing,…
- To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you…
- There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the…
- I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is…
- Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
- To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the…
- Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm…
- Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and…
- Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.
- It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity…
- Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.
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