At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.

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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

I can last two months on a good compliment.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

There is no such thing as "the Queen's English." The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

I reck'n I knows sense when I sees it; en dey ain' no sense in sich doin's as dat.

T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.