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"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason."

"A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat."

"I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real."
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"It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement."

"It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away."

"Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable."

"This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written."

"There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another."

"I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse."
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