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“How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature - the most of them, in fact!””

— Mark Twain

“What further does it tell us? This: that the assassin was left-handed. How do I know this? I should not be able to explain to you, gentlemen, how I know it, the signs being so subtle that only long experience and deep study can enable one to detect them. But the signs are here, and they are reinforced by a fact which you must have often noticed in the great detective narratives”

— Mark Twain

“No real gentleman will tell the naked truthin the presence of ladies.””

— Mark Twain

“God forgive us, mother, we are hunting the wrong man! I have not slept any all night. I am now awaiting, at dawn,””

— Mark Twain

“Even I feel a drawing toward him”

— Mark Twain

“She said, "The future is secure”

— Mark Twain

“In this world one must be like everybody else if he doesn't want to provoke scorn or envy or jealousy.””

— Mark Twain

“the lawful slave of a scion of slaves,””

— Mark Twain