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I would not rob you of your f...

I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

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It is not like studying Germa...

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

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I don't speak German well but...

I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry.

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Information appears to stew o...

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

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But we are all insane, anyway...

But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

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As for the dinosaur - But Noa...

As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.

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Out of the unconscious lips o...

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

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They all laid their heads tog...

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

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We all belong to the nasty st...

We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other... Oh, we are a nasty little lot-& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence.

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Shall we go on conferring our...

Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

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More than one cigar at a time...

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

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Whatever a man's age, he can ...

Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

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The humorous story is America...

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.

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A monarch, when good, is enti...

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

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The older we grow the greater...

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

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Darwin abolished special crea...

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ.

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...one of the first achieveme...

...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

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The timid man yearns for full...

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

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Warm summer sun, shine kindly...

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

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A half-educated physician is ...

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

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