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- Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
- In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots…
- It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among…
- I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and…
- 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…
- I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I…
- Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.
- At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to…
- It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs…
- Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had…
- The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage…
- But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness;…
- We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss…
- It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and…
- Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.
- We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.
- When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when…
- It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
- She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.
- Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school…
- 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…
- We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.
- So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far…
- If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the…
- Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps…
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