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Twain, Mark. Letter to Olivia Clemens. 19 Apr. 1894.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says:
"Yes, the little ones does."

Tom Sawyer Abroad

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Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer Abroad. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Tom Sawyer Abroad." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age & Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002.

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Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 21. Originally from Notebook, 1894.

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It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 21. Originally from Notebook, c. 1894.

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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Tom Sawyer Abroad

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Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer Abroad. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Tom Sawyer Abroad." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age & Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002.

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The majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France

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France, Anatole. Le Lys Rouge [The Red Lily]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1894, ch. 7.

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Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.

W.B. Yeats

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Yeats, William Butler. The Land of Heart's Desire. 1894, Avenue Theatre, London, England, UK.

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Yeats, William Butler. "The Land of Heart's Desire." Yeats's Poetry, Drama and Prose. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

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Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask, the heaven above
And the road below me.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The Vagabond." Songs of Travel. Chatto & Windus, 1896, st. 4.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The Vagabond." The Collected Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Roger C. Lewis. Edinburgh University Press, 2019, st. 4.

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There are reverent minds who ceaselessly scan the fields of Nature and the books of Science in search for gaps-gaps which they will fill up with God. As if God lived in gaps?

Henry Drummond

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Drummond, Henry. The Ascent of Man. New York City: James Pott & Co., 1894, ch. 10.

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Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.