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There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

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There is no humor in heaven.

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Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

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What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

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To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

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I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

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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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It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

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It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

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There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

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Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

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Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

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The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

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There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

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