Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.


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Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressman can
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Be yourself, be who you can be.
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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What's the difference between a cat and a flea? Cats can have fleas, but fleas can't have cats.
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To paraphrase Mark Twain, our demise is greatly exaggerated.
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Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
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Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
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Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
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I, Mark Twain being of sound mind, have spent everything
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Aging is a matter of mind. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
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Now she is ignoring me as first

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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
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Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
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I think these numbers should give Congressman Mark Foley reason to consider making a run.
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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."

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You can have anything you want in life, you must be willing to conquer the challenge.
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A man can hide all things, excepting twain-- That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
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I can cook anything.
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Learn, relearn and outlearn.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught
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There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain.
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You can be all that you want to be.
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With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
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I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.
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There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish.
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Beauty can be created, knowledge learned, but talent can neither be purchased nor taught.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
MARK TWAIN
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it ...
MARK TWAIN
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
MARK TWAIN
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAIN
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
MARK TWAIN
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
MARK TWAIN
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
MARK TWAIN