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“I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison”
Mark Twain
“I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.”
“He goes by the brand, yet imagines he goes by the flavor.”
“He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.”
“The more I get to know about lawyers, the more I'm in favor of hangin'.”
“If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.”
“You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.”
“I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.”
“We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.”
