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"A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!"

"The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold."

"Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside."

"Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside."
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"You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold."
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"The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance."

"People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy."

"I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor."

"In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them."

"Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation."

"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life."

"When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain."
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