Mark Twain quotes - page 44

There are two forces that can carry light to all corners of the globe -- the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press. (Mark Twain)

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

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I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

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

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We recognize that there are no trivial occurences in life.

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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -- the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency- and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency- and a vice.

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Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs.

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Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence and like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber and it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

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Troubles are only mental it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them. (Mark Twain)

The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.

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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering and that was the fact that it is past - and can't be restored.

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Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

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Human nature is the same everywhere it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

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The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he.

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He gossips habitually he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

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The Pause that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

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Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight - this is magnanimity but bet on the other one - this is business.

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When the human race has once acquired a superstition nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it. (Mark Twain)

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own, but I wish to sell out.

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We write frankly and freely but then we modify'' before we print.

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There isn't anything you can't stand, if you are only born and bred to it.

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We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

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Mark Twain

Occupation: American Author
Born: November 30, 1835
Died: April 21, 1910
Quotes count: 1197
Wikipedia: Mark Twain

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