Mark Twain quotes - page 18

An honest politician is an oxymoron. (Mark Twain)
It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them. View quote
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A home without a cat - and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat - may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title? View quote
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Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination. View quote
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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. View quote
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God created war so that Americans would learn geography. View quote
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other. View quote
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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. View quote
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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. View quote
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies. View quote
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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. (Mark Twain)
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? View quote
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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey. View quote
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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them unwise and I know they are dangerous. Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me now I would go to that man and take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet retired spot and kill him. View quote
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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. View quote
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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words. View quote
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That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it. View quote
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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay. View quote
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. View quote
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Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality. View quote
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Comparison is the death of joy. (Mark Twain)
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. View quote
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Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool. View quote
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. View quote
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Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement. View quote
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