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"I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living."

"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."

"There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins."

"It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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