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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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The great 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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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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The most perfect humor and irony is generally quite unconscious.
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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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The preference for certain subjects in any art is a sign of compact between the artist and society.
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
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