Lord, how the day passes It's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly if we do.

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One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

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If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

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I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

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I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

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