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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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. – Mark Twain

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

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Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good big centipede! If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race. – William S. Burroughs

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Cockroaches really put my “all creatures great and small” creed to the test. – Terri Guillemets

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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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If you would live innocently, seek solitude. – Publilius Syrus

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Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power. – Jean Paul

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What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things. – Albrecht Durer

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You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that arent true, but you never hear about the positive. – Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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