American Literature (Old - up to 20th century)
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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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Eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
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Fish and visitors stink after three days.
Mark Twain:
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.
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Always tell the truth. That way, you don’t have to remember what you said.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a
dog and a man.
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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does
things because they haven’t been done before.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Jack London Credo:
(published in an introduction to a 1956 collection of London´s stories)
I would rather be ashes than dust
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.