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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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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. – Mark Twain

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – 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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Cockroaches really put my “all creatures great and small” creed to the test. – Terri Guillemets

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His Labor is a Chant — his Idleness — a Tune — oh, for a Bees experience of Clovers, and of Noon! – Emily Dickinson

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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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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. – Bill Vaughan

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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in ones self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. – Michelangelo

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Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors. – Elbert Hubbard

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