I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

Travel is fatal to bigotry.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

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