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Attempted Quotes by Mark Twain
- Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use…
- A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world becausehe is a jackass; but…
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- Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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