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«As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.»
«Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.»
«Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.»
«A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation»
«As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.»
«Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your»
«A statesman is a politician who has been dead ten or fifteen years»
«After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow»
«An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write ''metropolis'' for seven cents, because I can get the same money for ''city'.' I never write ''policeman',' because I can get the same price for ''cop'.'... I never write ''valetudinarian'' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Because I Can,
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valetudinarian
«At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.»