Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.

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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg in New York Times (13 February 1959)
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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

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Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

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