"To create man was a quaint and..." - Quote by Mark Twain
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.
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“Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.”
“So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in your essays.What you do today is important, because you are sacrificing a day of your life for it.Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
“Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.”
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“Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.”
“Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister.”
“As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.”