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Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.

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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 29th, 1809

Died: October 7th, 1894

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