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My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

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The United States census for 1860 counted more than 600,000 Universalists in the country.

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The United States was at peace with the world. The country felt good about it. Little wars sprang up here and there in Europe, Asia, Africa, but it was none of our business.

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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

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You could mail a copy of Incidentals in an ordinary letter envelope, it was that small a book.

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

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A fellow, after speaking, took his seat as though he had had a good workout and felt easier.

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I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

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Every Thanksgiving and Christmas sason for four years I dressed chickens and turkeys in the basement of Sam Swanson's meat market, five cents for getting the feathers off a chicken, ten cents for a turkey.

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In order to live, you have to eat, and having eaten, your sex drive sends you into begetting children, reproducing yourself.

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I had a flashlight thrown on how language can change over centuries.

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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

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Enclosures are from my subterranean cavern of skulls, memoranda, miscellany, monkeybusiness.

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I wrote some editorials that I then considered instructive, solemn, and portentous, later seeing them as somewhat wishy-washy.

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I never saw a fireman drunk on duty.

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I have kept for years certain handwrought rusty nails that I can't throw away because of the way they say, we are of the time when man had tools but not yet machines for shaping us.

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There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

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Basketball had a fascination for me, and during the four years I never thought of quitting the game.

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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

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