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Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

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

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There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

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The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

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A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

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Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

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If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

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No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

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Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

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If all men were rich, all men would be poor.

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

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What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

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They did not know it was impossible so they did it

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The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.

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