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"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."

"Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought."

"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."
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"Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement."

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."

"A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories."

"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."
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