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Awash with unfocused desire, Everett twisted the lobe of his one remaining
ear and felt the presence of somebody else behind him, which caused terror
to push through his nervous system like a flash flood roaring down the
mid-fork of the Feather River before the completion of the Oroville Dam
in 1959.
-- Grand Panjandrum's Special Award, 1984 Bulwer-Lytton
bad fiction contest.
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| Linux Literature: 31 of 256 |
Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
-- Mark Twain
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| Linux Literature: 32 of 256 |
Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"--which is
but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention;" but the wise
man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and--WATCH THAT BASKET."
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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Big book, big bore.
-- Callimachus
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But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
-- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
-- Mark Twain
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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
-- Mark Twain
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| Linux Literature: 37 of 256 |
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-- Mark Twain
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| Linux Literature: 38 of 256 |
Condense soup, not books!
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Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
-- Shakespeare
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