Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes   
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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
Subject:
Miscellaneous   
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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
Subject:
Miscellaneous   
Work: Is Shakespeare Dead?
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Subject:
Quotations   
Work: Notebooks (1935)
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
Subject:
Miscellaneous   
Work: Following the Equator (1897)
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Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name BZJXXLLWCP is pronounced Jackson.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Subject:
Miscellaneous   
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Subject:
Miscellaneous   
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It is easier to stay out than get out.
Subject:
Miscellaneous   
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There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Subject:
Miscellaneous   
Work: Following the Equator (1897)
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Subject:
Miscellaneous   
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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.
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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
Subject:
Miscellaneous   
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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Subject:
Miscellaneous   
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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
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The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods; it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.
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Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
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