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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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We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. – Mark Twain

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I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time. – Mark Twain

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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. – Mark Twain

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Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths? – George Eliot

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That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. – Andy Warhol

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Some primal termite knocked on wood;
and tasted it, and found it good.
That is why your Cousin May
fell through the parlor floor today. – Ogden Nash

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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. – Joseph Stalin

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Jazz is the art of skipping obvious convention while still following it. – Eric Parslow

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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. – Ambrose Bierce

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Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten. – Conrad Hall

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