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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your
dog would go in. |
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| If you pick up a starving dog and make
him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between
a dog and a man. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar |
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| The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to
his heaven, not man's. - Letter to William D. Howells, 2 April 1899 |
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| A composite dog is a dog that's made up
of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed -- kind of a syndicate;
and a mongrel is made up of the riffraff that's left over. - Autobiographical dictation, 11 October 1907. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (University of California Press, 2015) |
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"Let a sleeping dog lie." It
is a poor old maxim, & nothing in it: anybody can do it, you don't have
to employ a dog. - inscription written in copy of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to Margery Clinton, 18 August 1908 |
| Lately Stormfield has distinguished itself by getting broken into by burglars.
It seems strange to me that a New York architect should have overlooked
so glaring a necessity as a burglar alarm for so isolated a house as this
is, when I reflect that New York is only an hour and a half away; that it
contains four millions of people, and that the most of them are burglars.
It would not have occurred to me to employ a dog, because a dog barks; he
barks at anything and everything that comes along, and therefore is a nuisance;
of course he would bark at a burglar, and I would rather have the burglar. - Autobiographical dictation, 6 October 1908. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (University of California Press, 2015) I do not like dogs, because they bark when there is no occasion for it;
but I have liked this one from the beginning, because he belonged to Jean,
and because he never barks except when there is occasion -- which is not
oftener than twice a week. |
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