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Get a bicycle

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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

Taming the Bicycle (1917)

Was born on: 30.11.1835
About Author: American author and humorist

Seeking adventures

I started out alone to seek adventures. You don't really have to seek them—that is nothing but a phrase—they come to you.

Taming the Bicycle (1917)

Bicycle's wabbles

The bicycle had what is called the 'wabbles', and had them very badly. In order to keep my position, a good many things were required of me, and in every instance the thing required was against nature. Against nature, but not against the laws of nature.

Taming the Bicycle (1917)

My mother and me

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Large heart

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

Not to do

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)

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