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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.