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		<title>When Very Angry, Swear</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Twain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."]]></description>
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		<title>Use Plain, Simple Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Twain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English--it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice."]]></description>
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		<title>When in Doubt, Strike it Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["As to the Adjective: When in doubt, strike it out."]]></description>
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		<title>On Criticizing Jane Austen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Twain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin."]]></description>
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		<title>Words Are Only Painted Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself."]]></description>
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		<title>French Idiots</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Twain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Language]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."]]></description>
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		<title>Using the Right Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Twain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["A powerful agent is the right word...Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt."]]></description>
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		<title>Sad to be Considered a Great Author</title>
		<link>http://marktwainclassics.com/marktwain/quotes-great-authors-dying-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Twain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I am not feeling very well myself."]]></description>
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		<title>The Grammar of Cats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Twain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does—but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you’ll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it’s the NOISE which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it’s the sickening grammar they use."]]></description>
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		<title>The Difference Between Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Twain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."]]></description>
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		<title>Swearing and the Spirit of Wrath</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Twain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The spirit of wrath—not the words—is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk."]]></description>
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		<title>Profanity and Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Twain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."]]></description>
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		<title>Virtues and Cussedness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Twain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try."]]></description>
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		<title>Noise Proves Nothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Twain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.”]]></description>
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		<title>On Classic Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Classic.” A book which people praise and don’t read.]]></description>
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