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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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