Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
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I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
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Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
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