| Quotes |
Topic |
| Deceit | Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. |
| Deceit | Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. |
| Deceit | When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. |
| Difference | The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. |
| Diplomacy | The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy--give one and take ten. |
| Dogs | If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. |
| Dress | Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. |
| Ecstacy | An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words, it feels like music. |
| Education | There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good, it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones, it can lift men to angelship. -Mark Twain. |
| Education | I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. |
| Emotion | Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. |
| Enjoyment | The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance, the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. |
| Experience | A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. |
| Experience | When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. |
| Eyes | You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. |
| Facts | Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. |
| Familiarity | Familiarity breeds contempt, and children. |
| Fiction | Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. |
| Flattery | Let us be thankful for the fools, but for them the rest of us could not succeed. |
| Focus | You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. |
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