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• Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a package you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
  Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1773]...
• Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
  -- Mark Twai...
• There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
  -- Mark Twai...
• It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours.
  You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it....
• The best American writers have come from the hinterlands--Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck.
  Most of them never even went to college. -- Edward Abbey...
• There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. -- Mark Twai
• Sacred cows make the best hamburger. -- Mark Twai
• Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. -- Mark Twai
• Be good and you will be lonesome. -- Mark Twai