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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

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