"Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words."

-- Mark Twain

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“Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.”
“In â€˜Imitation of Lifeâ€™, I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt,”
“Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.”
“The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.”
“Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.”
“I'm falling, but no matter how hard I hit the ground, I'll still smile.”
“I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were”
“The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth.”

Source : Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.51

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