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How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.


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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
MARK TWAIN What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
MARK TWAIN What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
MARK TWAIN Adam was the only man who, when saying a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.
MARK TWAIN Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,
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LEE WARREN I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.
RUTH RENDELL He [Halifax] had said that he had known many kicked downstairs, but he never knew any kicked upstair...
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ALAN HERBERT If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon ...
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PATRICIA BRIGGS He felt good, ... I said before I had a good feeling about it. I still do.
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.
TAMRA DAVIS My son Chris said he was 12 years old before he knew what I did for a living.
BOB ELLIOTT I asked him how he was before he left after the last ballgame. He said he was fine, ... That's all t...
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HERBERT WARREN Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
VAL KILMER He said very bluntly, 'So how is the UN?' This is before we even sat down. And I said, 'Well, it's n...
HERALDO MUNOZ I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does.
J.D. SALINGER Thirty-nine people knew about this. He said 39 people knew. He said he couldn't give us any names. W...
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JULIE SCHABLITSKY He always said Mark was going to be a world champion.
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FLIP SAUNDERS When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how ...
ELMER RICE When he let it go, I knew it was good, he knew it was good and I think the whole entire Clemente Cen...
BILLY MIMS Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of th...
JOYCE CAROL OATES There is no secret here when he stood in the Roosevelt Room and said 'I never had sexual relations w...
CHARLES RUFF Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Hon...
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SHELLY WILLIAMS He said, 'Yeah, let's do it,' ... Then he said, 'You should ask Keith [Richards].' I didn't want to ...
TIM RIES Huh,” said Kit, thinking of the Cold Peace. “Are you a prisoner?”
“No,” said the faer...
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JOEY ZAHN One thing he taught me was how to throw on the run when I was young. He always had a good arm.
DREW WEATHERFORD Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
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RUSTY ANDERSON The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue....
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JAMIE SPENCER It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back agai...
NEIL GAIMAN You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was fo...
HAL HOLBROOK It said Marwan needs money, and I knew he was in Afghanistan,
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ANTOINE WALKER He just said he was so sorry that he had that on his record. He just wanted to clear his record befo...
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CHAD CARLSON And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood befor...
BIBLE We knew Mark could be funny. Good actors can do anything, and we knew how good he is as an actor. Bu...
LAURIE MACDONALD The last time we had him here before he passed away, he said
CAROL STONE We got a call hours before the fight and he said he had a family situation.
RAY WALKER No, I got it,” he said. His voice was weird.
“Really?” I felt a nervous thrill in my stom...
MICHELLE HODKIN Anthony Davis knew who Dennis Winston was, ... When he tackled Anthony Davis, he went backwards. I a...
HAROLD HORTON And Agathon said, It is probable, Socrates, that I knew nothing of what I had said.

And y...
PLATO I said, 'Well, this has got to be news,' so I clicked on it, ... It had the whole transcript of what...
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FAY WRAY He'd get mad if you called him Lester. He said that when his father called him Lester, he knew he wa...
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BIBLE Frankie's stuff and his poise enabled him to succeed, and he just did it at a time when nobody expec...
BILL STONEMAN When he was talking about the approach segment, he said everything was normal. They knew where the t...
GREGORY FEITH It was about 1951. She had written me and said he was very special and he thought she was very speci...
EDYTHE SCOTT BAGLEY [He said he wants to] cringe ... when they're not doing a damn thing, and everybody's buying into it...
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ED LONEY Alan Greenspan once said to me . . . that he was really upset that when our Fed chairman died, nobod...
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MICHAEL LEWIS It’s total bullshit,” he said. “The whole thing. Eighty
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JOHN GREEN He told me he was stiff, he said go to Jamal (Crawford). I've said the same thing for four days now.
LARRY BROWN He was deeply apologetic, and he said it was ... unfortunate. He said it was irresponsible and he hu...
ART ABRAMSON It was a good bust. (He) had no remorse for the violations. He was caught and he knew he was caught,
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CATHY MANZANO I would come to his defense if I knew what he had said, and if he had said blacks have an inherent p...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER I know when I'm awake and when I'm asleep," Ronan Lynch said.
Adam Parrish, curled over himself...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
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TERRY PRATCHETT He said nobody moves, and nobody gets hurt. He then told Evans to handle your business.
HARZEL TYUS He said he was like a crocodile. You never knew whether he was trying to smile or preparing to swall...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Nobody gets skipped here. Our fifth guy in Oakland had it tough. He didn't know when he was pitching...
MARK MULDER I remember at a game early in the year he said something back to the referee. I kind of got on him r...
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