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Book Title: On the Decay of the Art of Lying
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
Observe, I do not mean to suggest that the _custom_ of lying has
suffered any decay or interruption--no, for the Lie, as a Virtue, A Principle,
is eternal; the Lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the
fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend, is immortal, and
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Book Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Author: William Shakespeare
Book Description:
Act 1
"scene" 1
Scene 1
[Before LEONATO'S house.]
[Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a Messenger]
LEONATO
I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon
comes this night to Messina.
Messenger
He is very nearMore... | |
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Book Title: WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
WHAT IS MAN?
I
a. Man the Machine. b. Personal Merit
[The Old Man and the Young Man had been conversing. The Old
Man had asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and
nothing more. The Young Man objected, and asked him to go into
particulars and furnish his reasons for his position.]
Old Man. WhatMore... | |
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Book Title: Innocents Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
Preface
THIS book is a record of a pleasure trip. If it were a record of a
solemn scientific expedition, it would have about it that gravity, that
profundity, and that impressive incomprehensibility which are so proper to
works of that kind, and withal so attractive. YetMore... | |
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Book Title: THE $30,000 BEQUEST and Other Stories
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
THE $30,000 BEQUEST
CHAPTER I
Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants,
and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West.
It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is
the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious,
and where each of theMore... | |
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Book Title: Goldsmiths Friend Abroad Again
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
LETTER I
SHANGHAI, 18-.
DEAR CHING-FOO: It is all settled, and I am to leave my oppressed and
overburdened native land and cross the sea to that noble realm where all
are free and all equal, and none reviled or abused--America! America,
whose precious privilege it is to callMore... | |
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Book Title: Double Barrelled Detective
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
PART I
"We ought never to do wrong when people are looking."
I
The first scene is in the country, in Virginia; the time, 1880. There
has been a wedding, between a handsome young man of slender means and a
rich young girl--a case of love at first sight and a precipitate
marriage; a marriage bitterly opposedMore... | |
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Book Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
PREFACE
THE ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical,
and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. It
is not pretended that these laws and customs existed in England in the
sixth century; no, it is only pretended that inasmuch as they existed in
the English and otherMore... | |
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