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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

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