In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.

Mark Twain

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2115 Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
1645 I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
1534 I asked tom if countries always apologize when they had done wrong, and he says, 'Yes, the little one does.'
1600 Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
1656 How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

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