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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom's Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

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I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

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There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

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A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

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Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

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I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

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I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

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We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

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Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

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I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

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There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

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If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

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To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

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when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

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