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Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

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The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

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Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

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If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

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As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

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It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

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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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You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

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Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

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What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

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I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

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I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.

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The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

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Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

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