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- A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won…
- If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.
- Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.
- I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than…
- I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.
- 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…
- It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together,…
- Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can…
- There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a…
- Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy,…
- I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the…
- What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race…
- To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of…
- An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and…
- There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the…
- The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely…
- Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.
- The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
- Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of…
- What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the…
- Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
- The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels…
- Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
- It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in…
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