Smiley said all a frog wanted was education, and he could do most any thing and I believe him.

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He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

I don't know. I don't want to sell him." "All right. It's a mighty small tick, anyway.

The governor had made up his mind to one thing: Joan was either a witch or a saint, and he meant to find out which it was.

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

You don't know about me without you have read a book called "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

In making this substitution I had drawn upon the wisdom of a very remote source — the wisdom of my boyhood — for the true statesman does not despise any wisdom, howsoever lowly may be its origin: in my boyhood I had always saved my pennies and contributed buttons to the foreign missionary cause.

I have replaced his tin life with a silver-gilt fiction.

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

One wearies of everything in this world, even happiness.

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.

Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.