| Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. |
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| Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brain. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat - at least, not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is about your fair usual average, I should judge that a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling-sized whales. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" - with his mouth. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. |
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- Mark Twain |
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