Tag: twain
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March 15, 2008 01:54 PM EDT --
This is a favorite of mine ... it's exactly how I feel when I've got spring fever!
"It's spring fever. That's what the name of it is. And when you've got it, . . .
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December 17, 2007 10:30 AM EST --
There are a few lines from literature that stick with you your whole life. I can usually see lines and words better than I can describe their meaning. I don't really know how to explain . . .
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September 29, 2008 06:55 PM EDT --
I used to think I didn't like the classics--as a small kid, loathing Alice; as a young reader in despair at the Ice Queen; and as a teenager bored by the Hobbit. I'm not sure how old . . .
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June 09, 2008 01:33 PM EDT --
I went to a used book sale at the library Saturday and got this cool stuff! One is an signed Mark Twain book!! I have to research it on Ebay to see if it's worth anything. Also got some videos and . . .
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March 21, 2009 09:47 PM EDT --
This one is my favorite:
"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. "
~Mark Twain
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September 05, 2009 09:37 PM EDT --
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I’m listening to the Hal Holbrook’s version of Mark Twain on PBS and it’s very entertaining.
One of the things he said was that man is the . . .
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August 09, 2007 11:16 PM EDT --
Let us endeavor so to live that, when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.
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December 04, 2007 09:21 AM EST --
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.
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June 19, 2008 12:06 PM EDT --
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between the lightening and the lightening bug."
Mark Twain
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March 19, 2009 12:39 AM EDT --
This is the song that was played as I walked down the aisle 10 years ago to marry the man of my dreams. We will celebrate our 10th anniversary on Friday, the first day of Spring.
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March 01, 2009 11:41 AM EST --
"It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart . . .
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June 22, 2009 10:02 PM EDT --
It's that damn New England weather that's causing havoc in my garden. I can't believe the wind and rain we have had all throughout the spring. Funny thing is I should of read Mark Twain's . . .
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May 11, 2006 04:43 PM EDT --
Ned walked out of the back door his third boring day in eternity. He was shocked to notice that less than a half a block away (a celestial block, mind you) was another mansion and it seemed to be . . .
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February 12, 2008 04:22 PM EST --
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
~ Mark Twain
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November 17, 2008 11:56 AM EST --
Summary: The classic book now in e-book format. I remember reading this book for school and liked it, and it may be a budget option if any students need it. Here is the link:
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March 19, 2009 09:52 AM EDT --
Today's quote.....
The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and . . .
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April 06, 2009 09:19 AM EDT --
Today's quote....
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." . . .
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September 16, 2008 09:30 PM EDT --
"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."
Mark Twain
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May 08, 2007 01:18 PM EDT --
"(Our house) had a heart,
and a soul, and eyes to see us
with; and approvals and
solicitudes, and . . .
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July 18, 2007 08:42 PM EDT --
(Part 4 of 4. To begin at Part 1, click HERE)
Four days later, sitting alone on the Great Wall at Simatai, sixty-five . . .
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