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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

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Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

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He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do ...more

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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

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There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't...more

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I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is...more