Secretly admires the splendors he affects to despise Self-satisfied, intolerant, and hypocritical provinciality Submitted, as people always do with the trials of others Tediously analytical They are so many and I am so few Truth is beyond invention Used to ingratitude from those he helped Vacuous vulgarity We did not know that we were poor We're company enough for ourselves What we thought ruin, but what was really release When she's really sick, she's better Wonder why we hate the past so?--"It's so damned humiliating!" You can't go back to anything You may do a great deal (of work), and not get on You marry a man's future as well as his past You cannot be at perfect ease with a friend who does not joke COMPLETE QUOTATIONS Absolutely, so positively, so almost aggressively truthful Abstract, the airdrawn, afflicted me like physical discomforts Account of one's reading is an account of one's life Adroitness in flattery is not necessary for its successful use Affections will not be bidden Aim at nothing higher than the amusement of your readers Air of looking down on the highest All in all to each other Always sumptuously providing out of his destitution Amiable perception, and yet with a sort of remote absence Amiably satirical Any man's country could get on without him Appeal, which he had come to recognize as invasive Artist has seasons, as trees, when he cannot blossom Authorities Authors I must call my masters Became gratefully strange Beginning to grow old with touching courage Begun to fight with want from their cradles Best talkers are willing that you should talk if you like Boldest man is commonly a little behind a timid woman Book that they are content to know at second hand Browbeat wholesome common-sense into the self-distrust Business to take advantage of his necessity But now I remember that he gets twenty dollars a month Buzz of activities and pretences Capriciousness of memory: what it will hold and what lose Chained to the restless pursuit of an ideal not his own Christianity had done nothing to improve morals and conditions Church: "Oh yes, I go! It 'most kills me, but I go" Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature Cold-slaw Collective opacity Comfort from the thought that most things cannot be helped Competition has deformed human nature Composed her features and her ideas to receive her visitor Concerning popularity as a test of merit in a book Conditions of hucksters imposed upon poets Contemptible he found our pseudo-equality Could only by chance be caught in earnest about anything Could make us feel that our faults were other people's Could not, as the saying is, find a stone to throw at a dog Could easily believe now that it was some one else who saw it Couldn't fire your revolver without bringing down a two volumer Crimson which stained the tops and steeps of snow Crimson torch of a maple, kindled before its time Critical vanity and self-righteousness