"It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen."
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"I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun."
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"Valerie Sherwood, I said to myself, you're going to die."
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"Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?"
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"Only what is essential must be said."
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"Pittacus said that half was more than the whole."
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"Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper."
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"When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another."
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"Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent."
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"Someone said to me, "How's your rabbit food?" I said, "Fine." ... "How's your vulture food?""
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"Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever."
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"Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties."
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"She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!"
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""Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic.""
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""You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I - I had not, particularly.""
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""We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them.""
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"Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously."
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"Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace."
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"As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like."
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"A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or so I fondly imagine."
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