Mark Twain quotes - page 16

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck-good or bad-are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it. (Mark Twain)
... from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.) View quote
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All that I care to know is that a man is a human being that is enough for me he can't be any worse. View quote
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Truth is stranger than fiction - to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. View quote
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A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them. View quote
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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born-a hundred million years-and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes. View quote
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It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do. View quote
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A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. View quote
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After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. View quote
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There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting. View quote
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Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use. (Mark Twain)
As to the Adjective when in doubt, strike it out. View quote
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Maybe it's not as bad as it sounds. View quote
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Satan hasn't a single salaried helper the Opposition employ a million. View quote
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Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. View quote
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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates - 1492 and 4th of July and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion. View quote
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I do not like work even when someone else does it. View quote
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If Christ were here now, there is one thing he would not be a Christian. View quote
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. View quote
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Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. View quote
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To believe yourself brave is to be brave it is the one only essential thing. (Mark Twain)
History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes. View quote
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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. View quote
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. View quote
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The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. View quote
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