Mark Twain Quotes
We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books theoretically, at least. 
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
- Mark Twain
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write ''metropolis'' for seven cents, because I can get the same money for ''city'.' I never write ''policeman',' because I can get the same price for ''cop'.'... I never write ''valetudinarian'' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.
- Mark Twain