We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there. –

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there. –

-- Mark Twain

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Loyalty to the nation all the time, loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. –

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull

-- Mark Twain

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