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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. - Author object (24)

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been. - Author object (24)

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it. - Author object (24)

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. - Author object (24)

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. - Author object (24)

God created war so that Americans would learn geography. - Author object (24)

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. - Author object (24)

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for. - Author object (24)

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. - Author object (24)

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed. - Author object (24)

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man. - Author object (24)

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Author object (24)

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. - Author object (24)

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Author object (24)

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. - Author object (24)

The secret to getting ahead is getting started. - Author object (24)

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. - Author object (24)

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. - Author object (24)

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. - Author object (24)

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. - Author object (24)