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Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

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Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

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I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.

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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

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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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Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

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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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Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

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Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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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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The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

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I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

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Comparison is the death of joy.

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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

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