Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
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Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.Mark Twain
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To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.
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Beautiful credit The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark -- ''I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.''
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