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Ignorant people think it's the NOISE which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

But the celebrate was an astonishing disappointment to me. If he had been behind a screen I should have supposed they were performing a surgical operation on him.

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

the palace considerable; but the duke stayed huffy a good while

This nightmare occupied some ten pages of manuscript and wound up with a sermon so destructive of all hope to non-Presbyterians that it took the first prize. This composition was considered to be the very finest effort of the evening. The mayor of the village, in delivering the prize to the author of it, made a warm speech in which he said that it was by far the most eloquent thing he had ever listened to, and that Daniel Webster himself might well be proud of it.

PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. B

A visitor to Mark Twain's house in Hartford observed mountains of books stacked on the floor. The author apologized for the disorder. You see, he lamented, It is so very difficult to borrow shelves.

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He said: Do you love rats? No! I hate them! Well, I do, too—LIVE ones. But I mean dead ones, to swing round your head with a string.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

Oh, no, Misto C –, I hadn't had no trouble. An' no joy!

and they come without any inherited prejudices in favor of hoary ignorances made sacred by long descent.

And such a luxury to him was this petting of his sorrows, that he could not bear to have any worldly cheeriness or any grating delight intrude upon it; it was too sacred for such contact...

wit and indelicacy being sometimes better literature-preservers than holiness.

That is the new miracle, and the greatest of all–Automatic Law!

kind. It was the most singular, and almost the most touching and melancholy exile that fancy can imagine.—One of

Pray for me! I reckoned if she knowed me she'd take a job that was more nearer her size.

The two testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The old one gives us a picture of these people's deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

appeared in any form. In it my purpose has been to present

Tolstoy carelessly neglects to include a boat race.

Looking at mental health problems the same way we look at other medical problems is factually correct—the best bet for reducing the disabling symptoms and the only way to lessen the stigma and blame that traditionally double or triple the pain.

but thought to myself that I'd done enough snooping

The Vandal known as Myth always slaughters Reason if she falters.

Of course curiosity killed the cat, and even if satisfaction supposedly brought it back, there's still that little problem with the man on the radio telling me more and more about some useless information.