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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

Other quotes by Mark Twain

The finest clothing made is a persons own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. – Mark Twain

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Society
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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? – Mark Twain

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Integrity
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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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Insects

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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Insects

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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Insects

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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A cloudless plain blue sky is like a flowerless garden. – Terri Guillemets, “Porch swing thoughts,” 2006

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Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. – Franz Schubert

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The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion. – Fred Allen

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The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life. – Thomas Hobbes

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