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A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

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We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

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When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

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To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

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And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

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Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, 'Where's your haggis?' and the Fijan would sigh and say, 'Where's your missionary?'

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If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

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Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

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Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

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Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.

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God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

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When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

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The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

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Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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