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From Speeches of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Orations Deserving of a Wider Audience, complied by Shaun Usher

BUT ARE

"But poets are the worst. Their work is hopelessly unphotogenic."

From We Just Don't Know, by Wislawa Szymborska

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From Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays: 1852 - 1890, by Mark Twain

YES AND NO

"Yes, those among you who have not been in the penitentiary, if such there be, are better than your fathers and grandfathers were, but is that any sufficient reason for getting up annual dinners and celebrating you?  No, by no means -- by no means."

From Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims

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From Speeches, by Mark Twain

TEN PAGES

"Ten pages of that.  Each and every word a seventeen-jointed vestibuled railroad train.  Seven cents a word."

From Spelling and Pictures

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From The Selected Writings of Sydney Smith, edited by W. H. Auden

THE GREATER PART

"The greater part of human improvements, gentlemen, I am sorry to say, are made after war, tumult, bloodshed, and civil commotion: mankind seem to object to every species of gratuitous happiness, and to consider every advantage as too cheap, which is not purchased by some calamity."

From Four Speeches on the Reform Bill