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"I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction, and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God, and not by your own effort, transfers the thing to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction, but it leaves you naked and bankrupt."
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"To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more."
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"You can only write well, what you have experienced."
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"True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who does not know what has been giving to him from above, shall never know how to use what he has been giving effectively and efficiently."
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"It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish."
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"The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do."
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"Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again."
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"Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship."
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"A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will."
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"Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game."
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"The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King."
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"In your country and mine we should have the privilege of making fun of this kind of morality, but it would be unkind to do it here.Many of these people have the reasoning faculty, but no one uses it in religious matters."
Critique
"Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'."
Wealth
"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."
Wisdom
"When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of its kingdoms along; and when they went they left a calm behind which was like the deep sleep which follows an orgy."
Atmosphere
"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
Psychology
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Compassion
"Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms."
Hope
"Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket."
Advice
"The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day."
Metaphor
"A proof once established is better left so."
Truth
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