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- We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what…
- The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment,…
- This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass…
- To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
- I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
- It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
- Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
- The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and…
- There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
- In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without…
- Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
- I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but…
- Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.
- When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors…
- Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very…
- In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves…
- The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.
- The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide…
- The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told…
- I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
- Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is…
- 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…
- It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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