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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
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