Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.

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Don’t you know what that is? 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 ache, you want it so!

Mark Twain

Mots clés spring restlessness

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You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Mark Twain

Mots clés conversation

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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

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Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

Mark Twain

Mots clés wisdom man wrong right recovery inferiority

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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

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S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

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One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until
after considerable acquaintance with her.

Mark Twain

Mots clés love beauty men-and-women

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