"Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author."

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"Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author."

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"A functioning police state needs no police."

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"Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society."

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"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."

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"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do."

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"The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest."

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"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all."

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"To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal."

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"Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world."

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"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."

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