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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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