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Quote by Mark Twain
The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum

The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. – Mark Twain

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Lord save us all from… a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. – Mark Twain

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Hope
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. – Mark Twain

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Courage
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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. – Mark Twain

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Birds
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Life is like quotations. Sometimes it makes you laugh. Sometimes it makes you cry. Most of the time, you just don’t get it. – Author Unknown

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He picked something out of everything he read. – Pliny

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A vast meaning is unfolded in each line, with such power that a sentence only a line long would suffice for a whole life’s training. – Rufinus (translated from Latin), about The Sentences of Sextus

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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. – Elias Canetti

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I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if its a paragraph. – Sloane Crosley

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Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet. – Joichi Ito

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amazing

The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if shes just practicing? – Ruth Gordon

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Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So its free as in freedom. – Richard Stallman

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