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Some of his words were not Sunday-school words.Mark Twain
When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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The Bible has noble poetry in it and some clever fables and some blood-drenched history and a wealth of obscenity and upwards of a thousand lies.
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In India, cold weather is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.
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