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"Elves and Dragons!" I says to him. "Cabbages and potatoes are better
for you and me."
-- J. R. R. Tolkien
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English literature's performing flea.
-- Sean O'Casey on P.G. Wodehouse
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| Linux Literature: 47 of 256 |
Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at
fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take
the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will
find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil,
you will say that she did it with her teeth.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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Every cloud engenders not a storm.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
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| Linux Literature: 49 of 256 |
Every why hath a wherefore.
-- William Shakespeare, "A Comedy of Errors"
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Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.
-- William Shakespeare, "The Rape of Lucrece"
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| Linux Literature: 51 of 256 |
F.S. Fitzgerald to Hemingway:
"Ernest, the rich are different from us."
Hemingway:
"Yes. They have more money."
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Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is
oblivion.
-- Mark Twain
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| Linux Literature: 53 of 256 |
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
-- "Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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