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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

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Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

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I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

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Never mistake motion for action.

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

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Poets wish to profit or to please.

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Every old poem is sacred.

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Make a good use of the present.

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A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

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