If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

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We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the...

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the...

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to...

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to...

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to...

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to...

Groan and forget it.

Groan and forget it.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth...

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth...

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor...

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by...

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor...

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise...

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise...

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption...

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption...

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole...

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole...

Know that this world's life is only sport and play and gaiety and boasting among...

Know that this world's life is only sport and play and gaiety and boasting among...

Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does.

Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does.