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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Golf is a good walk spoiled.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g j" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling"

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