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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain

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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. – Mark Twain

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Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. – Mark Twain

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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. – Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Note-Books

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Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us. – Julia Penelope

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Ive found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be pass? before it gets into print. – Raymond Chandler

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