| It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. |
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| Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use. |
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| If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. |
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| Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. |
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| It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. |
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| But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? |
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| The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. |
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| Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat. |
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| The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in it. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Behold the fool saith Put not all thine eggs in the one basket— which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention; but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and — watch that basket! |
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- Mark Twain |
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| I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. |
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| I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop. |
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