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As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

I never give them [the public] hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

It takes two to speak the truth,—one to speak, and another to hear.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

It is not worthwhile to go around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

Books that told me everything about the wasp, except why.

Everything I have written seems like straw by comparison with what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

The important thing is not to think much but to love much.

Our goodness derives not from our capacity to think but to love.

Then, rising with Aurora’s light,

Few are qualified to shine in company; but it is in most men’s power to be agreeable.

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

If landscapes were sold, like the sheets of characters of my boyhood, one penny plain and twopence coloured, I should go the length of twopence every day of my life.

If landscapes were sold, like the sheets of characters of my boyhood, one penny plain and twopence coloured, I should go the length of twopence every day of my life.