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«This old stone tower was very massive--and rather ruinous, too, for it was Roman, and four hundred years old. Yes, and handsome, after a rude fashion, and clothed with ivy from base to summit, as with a shirt of scale mail.»
«An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write ''metropolis'' for seven cents, because I can get the same money for ''city'.' I never write ''policeman',' because I can get the same price for ''cop'.'... I never write ''valetudinarian'' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Because I Can, cents, dug, fifteen, four letter word, metropolis, policeman, shaved, the metropolis, to the point, valetudinarian
«It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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bird of paradise, June, June bug, young bird
«Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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bully, butter, freshen, freshen up, hogwash
«It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right»
«Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth»
«Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.»
«Never tell a lie except for practice.»
«Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.»
«The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half of life consists of the chance without the capacity»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Chance
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capacity, first half, last half
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