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
Of Teddy Roosevelt...He would go to Halifax for half a chance to show off and
he would go to hell for a whole one.
- Mark Twain in Eruption
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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