"If the bubble reputation can be obtained..." - Quote by Mark Twain
If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.
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“Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.”
“You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.”
“Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.”
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“The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.”
“O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.”
“One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.”