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"You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures."

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

"I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose."

"I don't know any writers who don't drink."

"Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar."

"Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read."

"A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly."
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"It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate."

"It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort."

"As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone."

"The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice."

"Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture."
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