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When you catch an adjective, kill it.

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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

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The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

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You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom's Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.

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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

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A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.

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... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

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It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

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There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

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If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

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There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

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When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

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The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

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In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

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Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

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