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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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All say, “How hard it is that we have to die” – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. – Mark Twain

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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain

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As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized! – Mark Twain

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We starve the rats, creosote the ticks, swat the flies, step on the cockroaches and poison the scales. Yet when these pests appear in human form we go paralytic. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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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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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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