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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

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there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

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It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

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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 a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

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It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

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All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

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He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.

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Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

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Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

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When angry, count to a hundred.

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Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

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