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Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

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The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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

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The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

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The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

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... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

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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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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

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We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

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Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

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Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

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You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

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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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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

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