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"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own."
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"Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'."
"The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same."
"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own."
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"For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded."
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."
"Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that."
"A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting."
"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
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