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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."

"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."

"When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."

"Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name."

"Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters."
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