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Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.

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Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do...more

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I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight o...more

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There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even openin...more

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Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

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I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to l...more

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I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.

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If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.