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Charles Dickens: Anythin' for a...

Charles Dickens: Anythin' for a...

Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said wen he took the sitivation at the lighthouse.

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Charles Dickens: Grief never mended...

Charles Dickens: Grief never mended...

Grief never mended no broken bones, and as good people's wery scarce, what I says is, make the most on...

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Peter De Vries: I write when...

Peter De Vries: I write when...

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every...

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James Thurber: Early to rise...

James Thurber: Early to rise...

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.

Source:...

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Mark Twain: Wit is the...

Mark Twain: Wit is the...

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their marriage were not perceived to have any...

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Mark Twain: The trouble with...

Mark Twain: The trouble with...

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't...

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Mark Twain: The right word...

Mark Twain: The right word...

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed...

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Mark Twain: Let us be...

Mark Twain: Let us be...

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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Mark Twain: I must have...

Mark Twain: I must have...

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it...

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Mark Twain: Truth is the...

Mark Twain: Truth is the...

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Source: Following...

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Mark Twain: A banker is...

Mark Twain: A banker is...

A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to...

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Mark Twain: Faith is believing...

Mark Twain: Faith is believing...

Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Mark Twain: Forget and forgive....

Mark Twain: Forget and forgive....

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive...

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Mark Twain: Fleas can be...

Mark Twain: Fleas can be...

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressman can.

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-- Mark...

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Mark Twain: In Paris they...

Mark Twain: In Paris they...

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand...

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Mark Twain: I never could...

Mark Twain: I never could...

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

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Mark Twain: I was born...

Mark Twain: I was born...

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

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-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...

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Mark Twain: If man had...

Mark Twain: If man had...

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Source: In The...

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Mark Twain: In a museum...

Mark Twain: In a museum...

In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus -- 'one when he was a boy and one when he was a...

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Mark Twain: In the South,...

Mark Twain: In the South,...

In the South, the war is what A.D. is elsewhere: they date from it.

Source: Life on...

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