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I'm sorry this letter is so long, but I did not have time to make it shorter.

— Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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  1. Tomorrow is the yesterday of two days from now.
  2. Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over.
  3. Golf is a good walk spoiled.
  4. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
  5. The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
  6. Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
  7. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sai…
  8. There are three kinds of lies - Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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Topics in this quote

  • writing
  • productivity
  • effort
  • brevity
  • editing

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