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“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
― Mark Twain

“Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.”
― William Jordan

“What makes night within us may leave stars.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three