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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

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A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

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The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

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My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

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The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.

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I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

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There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

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In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

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Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

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This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for forty-four years. . . . [Footnote: Roughing It is dedicated to Higbie.] . . . I shall allow myself the privilege of copying his punctuation and his spelling, for to me they are a part of the man. He is as honest as the day is long. He is utterly simple-minded and straightforward, and his spelling and his punctuation are as simple and honest as he is himself. He makes no apology for them, and no apology is needed.

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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

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What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

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The heart is the real fountain of youth.

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Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

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Too much is just enough.

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It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

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