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豐收成三…


“I saw a startling sight today,” Mark Twain said,
“a politician with his hand in his own pockets.”

- quoted in New Ideas from Dead Economists, Todd G. Buchholz

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"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning（閃電）and a lightning bug（螢火蟲）."

Source: Letter to George Bainton (1888) /see http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

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“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”

- quoted in Autobiography with Letters, William L. Phelps


（圖片取自http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/images2/twain_cigars.gif）