Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Tag: Mark Twain
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For example, in Year 1 that useless letter “c” would be dropped to be replased either by “k” or “s”, and likewise “x” would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which “c” would be retained would be the “ch” formation, which will be dealt with
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it–and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again–and that is well; but also she will
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.