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- From: haavardf@boson.uio.no (Haavard Fosseng)
- Subject: Re: History (was: a paradox)
- In-Reply-To: lucas@teal.csn.org's message of Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:14:20 GMT
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- In article <Bzo7vx.E18@csn.org> lucas@teal.csn.org (Rick Lucas) writes:
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- How about some Twain quotations?
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- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody
- wants to read.
- Speeches. The Disappearance of Literature
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- A verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when its all together, It's
- downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They
- take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the
- other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between
- these two limits they just shovel in German.
- Ibid
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- Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
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- By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's, I mean.
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- Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough
- majority in any town?
- Huckleberry Finn
-
- I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a
- week sometimes to make it up.
- The Innocents Abroad
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- It is by the goodness of God that, in this country, we have threebenefits:
- freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
- Following the Equator
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- Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
-
- Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
- Congress. But I repeat myself.
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- There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
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- The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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- Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it.
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- Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time
- to reform.
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- Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to
- stick to possibilities; truth isn't.
-
- One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that
- the cat has only nine lives.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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- Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Ibid
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- Familiarity breeds contempt --- and children.
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- O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with
- our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms
- of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with
- the wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes
- with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their
- unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out
- roofless with their little children to wander unfriended through
- wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sport
- of the sun-flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in
- spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave
- and denied it --- for our sakes, who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes,
- blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their
- steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the
- blood of their wounded feet! We ask of onwe who is the Spirit of
- love and who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are
- sore beset, and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Grant
- our prayer, O Lord, and Thine shall be the praise and honor and
- glory now and ever, Amen.
- War Prayer
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