"Men are only as great as they are kind."
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"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."
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"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another."
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"Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it."
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"Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within."
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"Literature is the history of the soul."
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"Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood."
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"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."
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"I live on good soup, not on fine words."
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"I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival."
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"Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies."
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"No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist."
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"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison."
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"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."
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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."
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"I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent."
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"A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue."
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"The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it."
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"In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want."
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