Mark Twain quotes - page 46

Suppose ... burglars had made entry into this ... library. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress. (Mark Twain)
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. View quote
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It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him. View quote
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Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes. View quote
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The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him. View quote
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It is often the case that the man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one. View quote
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A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring. View quote
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He is useless on top of the ground he ought to be be under it, inspiring the cabbages. View quote
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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself... Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. View quote
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The church is always trying to get other people to reform it might not be a bad idea to reform itself. View quote
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All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime. (Mark Twain)
It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them. View quote
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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. View quote
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A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment. View quote
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War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull. View quote
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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus. View quote
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Never waste a lie you never know when you may need it. View quote
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Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty. View quote
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In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money. View quote
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I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours. View quote
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A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training the odds are too heavy. (Mark Twain)
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either. View quote
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I admire him Cecil Rhodes, I frankly confess it and when his time comes I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake. View quote
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An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words it feels like music. View quote
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Love is a madness if thwarted it develops fast. View quote
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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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