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| #6484 | | I've touch'd the highest point of all my greatness;
And from that full meridian of my glory
I haste now to my setting. I shall fall,
Like a bright exhalation in the evening
And no man see me more.
-- Shakespeare
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| #6485 | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would
be a merrier world.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien
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| #6486 | | If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
in reading it at all.
-- Oscar Wilde
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| #6487 | | If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
-- Ernest Hemingway
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| #6488 | | If you laid all of our laws end to end, there would be no end.
-- Mark Twain
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| #6489 | | If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.
This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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| #6490 | | If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
-- Mark Twain
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| #6491 | | In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus,
"one when he was a boy and one when he was a man."
-- Mark Twain
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| #6492 | | In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into
use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather
which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.
-- Mark Twain
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| #6493 | | In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but
the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they
have obtained from books of travel.
-- Mark Twain
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