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Quote by Mark Twain
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. – Mark Twain

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No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live. – Mark Twain

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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. – Mark Twain

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. – Mark Twain

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A number of moralists condemn lotteries and refuse to see anything noble in the passion of the ordinary gambler. They judge gambling as some atheists judge religion, by its excesses. – Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, 1832

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One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. – Dan Bennett

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Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage. – Author Unknown

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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. – Chinese Proverb

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

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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Our alternative is either to stick to a moral tradition which we haven – Friedrich A. Hayek

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I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and Id bet I wouldnt lose 10 % of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. – Berke Breathed

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