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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
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I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
Your actions speak so much louder than words.
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends
