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The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it.
Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.
It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words.
Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.
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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
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Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all.
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
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