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You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

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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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when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

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This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.

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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

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Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

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Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

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Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

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When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

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Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

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Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

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Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

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To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

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It is easier to stay out than get out.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

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