Now 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.
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All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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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.
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Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.
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There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.
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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The trouble with our younger authors is that they are all in the sixties.
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