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Was it my conspicuousness that...

Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

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It is not in the least likely ...

It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

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A good and wholesome thing is ...

A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.

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What is the most rigorous law ...

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.

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This autobiography of mine is ...

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 along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.

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The late Bill Nye once said, '...

The late Bill Nye once said, 'I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

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A man may plan as much as he w...

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

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I am living a new and exalted ...

I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.

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I believe I have had the most ...

I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust on another.

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No, I have no desire for riche...

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

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The dreamer's valuation of a t...

The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.

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Now, isn't imagination a preci...

Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders...

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Now when I had mastered the la...

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

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The government is merely a ser...

The government is merely a servantЂ•merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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I've lived through some terrib...

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

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The Germans have an inhuman wa...

The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from 'Disappearance of Literature

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It takes your enemy and your f...

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 the news to you.

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I am not interested to know wh...

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

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I do not like an injurious lie...

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

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The only difference between a ...

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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