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Quote by Mark Twain
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. – Mark Twain

Other quotes by Mark Twain

A man can seldom — very, very, seldom — fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy. – Mark Twain

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Training
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Mark Twain
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Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy. – Mark Twain

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Insects
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Other Quotes from
Weather
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[T]here has been a violent storm and rain…. This morning shone as bright as if it meant to make up for all the dismalness of the past days. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, journal, 1841 October 7th

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Weather

How refreshing is the breeze which now fans my forehead!—it seems like the sweet breath of a guardian Angel. – Charles Lanman, “Musings,” 1840

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Weather

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Weather

For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. – George Gissing, “Winter,” The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903

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Weather

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