the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

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