There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.

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There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

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The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

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A Quatrain

A quatrain fills a little space,
Although it's pretty small,
And oftentimes, as in this case,
It has no point at all.

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Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

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There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five-cent nickel.

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Fragment

"Militis in galea nidum fecere columbæ,"--

PETRONIUS

WITH IN the soldier's helmet see
The nesting dove;
Venus and Mars, it seems to me,
In love.

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We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

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