"He gossips habitually; he lacks the common..." - Quote by Mark Twain
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
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“I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.”
“College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.”
“But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.”
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“Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.”
“When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.”
“In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.”
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“What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.”
“one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.”
“Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.”