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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain
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Probable nor'east to sou'west winds, varying to the soutard and westard and eastard and points between; high and low barometer, sweeping round from place to place; probable areas of rain, snow, hail, and drought, succeeded or preceded by earthquakes with thunder and lightning.
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I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.
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A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
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...my sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before; my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away.
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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practised in the tricks and delusions of oratory.
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He says every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind if you want to see it.
Mark Twain
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the State die? Oh no.
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain