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Why will people be so stupid as to suppose themselves the only foreigners among a crowd of ten thousand persons?

Satan had been making admiring remarks about certain of the Creator's sparkling industries -- remarks which, being read between the lines, were sarcasms.

In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice.

It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out of our eyes came from our hearts, and their dumb speech was worship.

Jim said he believed it was spirits, but I says: no, spirits wouldn't say dern the dern fog.

If there is one thing in the world that will make a man peculiarly and insufferably self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day it sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him;

He would be a consul no doubt by and by, at some foreign port, of the language of which he was ignorant; though if ignorance of language were a qualification he might have been a consul at home.

Always—from all companies, high or low—she went forth richer in honor and esteem than when she came.

Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart.

Oh, go to bed! Dan said that, and went away. Oh, yes, it's all very well to say go to bed when a man makes an argument which another man can't answer.

How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature - the most of them, in fact!

the king he allowed he would drop over to t'other village without any plan, but just trust in Providence to lead him the profitable way - meaning the devil, I reckon.

you give me much more of your sass I'll take and bounce a rock off'n your head.

If he was a wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

But the lawyer he jumps on the table and yells, and says: "Gentlemen—gentlemen! Hear me just a word—just a single word—if you please! There's one way yet—let's go and dig up the corpse and look.

What's gone with that boy,  I wonder? You TOM!

Dan said the other day to the guide, Enough, enough, enough! Say no more! Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!

Foo-foo the First, King of the Mooncalves!

down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat. "I never did see

Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

It's an awful snug place for orgies. What orgies? I dono. But robbers always have orgies, and of course we've got to have them, too.

and a manner so peculiar and romantic, and extraneous, and ad libitum, and heart-searching, that—that—he—he is an impressionist, I presume? No, said the captain simply, he is a Presbyterian.

Their garment? Have they but one? Ah, good your Worship, what would they do with more? Truly they have not two bodies each.