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He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is
now fast rising from affluence to poverty.
Topic: Agriculture
Source: Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Farm
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There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling
around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but
when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them
how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and
say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no
core.
Topic: Apples
Source: Tom Sawyer Abroad (ch. I)
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of
ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Topic: Breeding
Source: Notebooks
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are
more deadly in the long run.
Topic: Cleanliness
Source: A Curious Dream, "Facts concerning the Recent Resignation"
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All the territorial possessions of all the political
establishments in the earth--including America, of course--
consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe,
howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies
a foot of land that was not stolen.
Topic: Countries
Source: Following the Equator
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good
example.
Topic: Example
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson (ch. 19)
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Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from
designs by Michel Angelo!
Topic: Italy
Source: The Innocents Abroad (ch. 27)
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All the territorial possessions of all the political
establishments in the earth--including America, of course--
consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe,
howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies
a foot of land that was not stolen.
Topic: Land
Source: Following the Equator
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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no
more.
Modesty died when clothes were born.
Modesty died when false modesty was born.
Topic: Modesty
Source: Memoranda (vol. III, p. 1513), in Paine's "Biography of Mark Twain"
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Conductor, when you receive a fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare.
A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare,
A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare,
A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
Punch, brothers! punch with care!
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
Topic: Nonsense
Source: Punch, Brothers, Punch, used in "Literary Nightmare"
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All kings is mostly rapscallions.
Topic: Royalty
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (ch. 23)
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt
you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get
the news to you.
Topic: Sadness
Source: Following the Equator (ch. 45)
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They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always
spell better than they pronounce.
Topic: Spelling
Source: The Innocents Abroad (ch. 19)
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There are several good protections against temptations, but the
surest is cowardice.
Topic: Temptation
Source: Following the Equator (ch. 36)
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The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities!
They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn
breath upon the planet. (the Devil and Shakespeare.)
Topic: Worth
Source: Shakespeare Dead? (ch. III)
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