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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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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. – Mark Twain

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work. – 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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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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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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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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Mans nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. – Mahatma Gandhi

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I really didn’t say everything I said. – Yogi Berra

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Its big production. Its huge. Its using studio technology to your benefit. You dont go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create. – Joe Elliott

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My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug. – Isabel Lucas

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