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Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressman can. (Mark Twain)
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground. View quote
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So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked. View quote
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. . . there warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to but a hog is different. View quote
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It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval. View quote
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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. View quote
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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. View quote
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. View quote
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In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however,the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot. View quote
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If I cannot smoke cigars in Heaven, I shall not go. View quote
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Old habits can't be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxeddown the stairs one step at a time. (Mark Twain)
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. View quote
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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. View quote
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. View quote
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Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it. View quote
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It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible. View quote
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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals -- apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. View quote
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Tonight I appear for the first time before a Boston audience -- 4000 critics. View quote
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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. View quote
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt. View quote
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On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved. (Mark Twain)
Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects." View quote
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. View quote
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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. View quote
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Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. View quote
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