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Quote by Mark Twain
Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant

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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My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. – Mark Twain

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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. – Mark Twain

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a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat – Don Marquis

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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars. – Tama Janowitz

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Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long glinting dragon-flies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies. – Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company

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People who get through life dependent on other peoples possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count. – Ben Elton

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To be a successful father… theres one absolute rule: when you have a kid, dont look at it for the first two years. – Ernest Hemingway

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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. – Judy Garland

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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when youre burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times. – Amy Grant

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