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Mark Twain Quotes
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~ Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. ~
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~ A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out ~
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~ There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence ~
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~ I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. ~
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~ The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades ~
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~ Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on ''The Survival of the Fittest.'' These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution. ~
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~ The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten ~
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~ In literature imitations do not imitate ~
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~ A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial ~
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~ Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself ~
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~ Use the right word and not its second cousin ~
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~ And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows ~
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~ Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it ~
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~ The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny ~
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~ It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, lying on our backs, looking up at stars, and we didn't even feel like talking aloud. ~
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