Mark Twain quotes - page 41

Children have but little charity for one another's defects. (Mark Twain)

In the South, the war is what A. D. is elsewhere they date from it.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows -- it must grow nothing can prevent it.

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My advice to women is First, don't smoke -- to excess Second, don't drink -- to excess Third, don't marry -- to excess.

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant, and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

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A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor the party and country come second to that, and never first.

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Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

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When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief.

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Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others. (Mark Twain)

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only -- not from its privileged classes.

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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

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An ethical man is a Christian holding four aces.

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Beautiful credit The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark -- ''I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.''

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and. . . Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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Golden rule Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

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I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

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All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

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What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking? (Mark Twain)

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

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A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

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A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

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True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

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Mark Twain

Occupation: American Author
Born: November 30, 1835
Died: April 21, 1910
Quotes count: 1199
Wikipedia: Mark Twain

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