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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

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To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

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At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

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There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

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There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

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There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

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Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 1st, 1819

Died: September 28th, 1891

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