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“It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing, never let on; kept it to myself; it's the best way; then you don't have no quarrels, and don't get into no trouble. If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadn't no objections, 'long as it would keep peace in the family; and it warn't no use to tell Jim, so I didn't tell him. 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.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“I want a hero: an uncommon want,
When every year and month sends forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,        The age discovers he is not the true one;”
― Lord Byron, Don Juan

“God almost always opens two ways which lead thither, the ways of sorrow and of love.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, Camille

“Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias