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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Method Writing Buy Ways
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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Armed Work Conviction Leap
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Dresses Etiquette Like Lying
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Anomaly Bell Difficult Dinner
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

First Deadly Invaluable Whole
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Victims Women Advances Become
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Bed Before Going Scoundrel
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Become Courage Grow Grow Up
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Always Answer Ask Beautiful
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My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

Calendar Day Getting Jealousy
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Anybody He Little Made
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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
Being Draw Men Most
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Write Reason Good Books
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Cognizant Day Dream Escape
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Bent Come Content Dreams
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My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

Around Came Carries Father
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Brute Directly Fidelity Frequent
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Afraid Brave Coward Either
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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Able Been Dislike Has Been
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Begins Best Boundaries Death
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Appear Dreams Man Realities
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Alive Die He Life
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Any Attain Commonly Easier
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Being Better Chance Commonly
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

Mistake Room Company Feel
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

Bear Feel Forgotten Himself
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Converse Desire He Man
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

Different Manner Might Much
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

About Any Anything Day
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

Area Communication Communication Skills Day
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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

Business Business Model Consequence Happy
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
Decisions Made Show Those
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Annoying Generally Going People
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

Afraid Dialogue Eight Going
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People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.

Call Dislike Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Civil Civil Service Examination Federal
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You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
Find Friends Involved Out
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I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.

Mickey Mouse They Know
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Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Abuse America Everything Forget
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There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

Critics Lie Many Strengths
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Achieve Dare Ever Fail
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I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.
Am Figure Going Out
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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

Am Calling Destroy Find
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I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances.

Any Circumstances Foreseeable Friends
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Adversity Hard Hundred Man
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They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

Broke Loose Me Put
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I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in golf. We have all become resigned to the fact that he has determined that he won't be beaten.

Am Any Ashamed Beaten
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Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.

Any Change Economic Forces Face
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The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.

American American People Better Better Way
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Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress.

Actress Am Close Had
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