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These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.

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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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English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

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I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

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A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

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Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

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Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

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

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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

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The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.

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