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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
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Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.
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To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.
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Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

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Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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