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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid
an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
- Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar |
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| War talk by men who have been in a war
is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the
moon is likely to be dull. - Life on the Mississippi |
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Mr. Roosevelt is the Tom Sawyer of the political world of the twentieth century; always showing off; always hunting for a chance to show off; in his frenzied imagination the Great Republic is a vast Barnum circus with him for a clown and the whole world for audience; he would go to Halifax for half a chance to show off and he would go to hell for a whole one. - Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3 (2015) |
 Theodore Roosevelt in hunting clothes. From Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division |
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