Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
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Dutch is not so much a language as a disease of the throat.
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Never criticize a man who buys ink by the barrel.
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buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.
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Jane Austen’s books are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it.
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From the moment I picked up your book until the moment I put it down I could not stop laughing. Someday I hope to read it.
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wants to read.
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I like a thin book because it will steady a table; a leather volume because it will strop a razor; and a heavy book because it can be thrown at a cat.
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In India, ‘cold weather’ is merely a phrase to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass doorknob and weather which only makes it mushy.
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He was our greatest living painter, until he died.
Mark Twain