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Quote by Mark Twain
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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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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? – Mark Twain

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I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. – Mark Twain

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No language is rude that can boast polite writers. – Aubrey Beardsley

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. – Carl Sandburg, New York Times, 1959 February 13th

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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino

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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? – African Proverb

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