Mark Twain quotes - page 11

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. (Mark Twain)
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. View quote
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. View quote
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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin. View quote
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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. View quote
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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. View quote
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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. View quote
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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it. View quote
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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. View quote
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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. View quote
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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. (Mark Twain)
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. View quote
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Of all the creatures that were made he [man] is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one - the solitary one - that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices - the most hateful...He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain...Also - in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind. View quote
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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. View quote
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. View quote
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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. View quote
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The Bible has noble poetry in it and some clever fables and some blood-drenched history and a wealth of obscenity and upwards of a thousand lies. View quote
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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. View quote
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Obscurity and a competence -- that is a life that is best worth living. View quote
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe. View quote
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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. (Mark Twain)
The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. View quote
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough. View quote
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Human beings can be awful cruel to one another. View quote
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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other it will unriddle many riddles it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now. View quote
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