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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

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I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

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Modesty died when clothes were born.

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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

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I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

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Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

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One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

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There is no accounting for human beings.

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Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

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I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

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You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.

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Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

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A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

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Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

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If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

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Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

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