It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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• Mark Twain:

  Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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  Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

• Mark Twain:

  Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.

• Mark Twain:

  The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

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  There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

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  Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a re

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  Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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  Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

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  Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.