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When one has tasted watermelon

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.
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Many a small thing has

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
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Good breeding consists of concealing

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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I have a prejudice against

I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment-- but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)
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It is the difference of

It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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It were not best that

It were not best that we should all think alike it is the difference of opinion that makes horse races. - from Pudd'nhead Wilson
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I've come loaded with statistics,

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics.
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Nothing so needs reforming as

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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Language is a city to

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
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A verb has a hard

A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's 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 a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
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