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Fill in the Blank - Mark Twain Quotes

Can you guess the missing words in these quotes from the classic American author?
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When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!
We have a criminal justice system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licenced liquor traffic is to sobriety.
But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
Of all god's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!
Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning facilities atrophied with drink.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
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