Mark Twain quotes - page 25

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. (Mark Twain)
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected. View quote
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. View quote
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We are all alike, on the inside. View quote
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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world. View quote
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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. View quote
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India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers India is the only millionaire. View quote
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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. View quote
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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. View quote
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It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. View quote
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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake. (Mark Twain)
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. View quote
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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late. View quote
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Better a broken promise than none at all. View quote
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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself. View quote
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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. View quote
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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. View quote
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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. View quote
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We have the best government that money can buy. View quote
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All generalizations are false, including this one. View quote
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I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog. (Mark Twain)
It does look as if Massachusetts were in a fair way to embarrass me with kindnesses this year. In the first place, a Massachusetts judge has just decided in open court that a Boston publisher may sell, not only his own property in a free and unfettered way, but also may as freely sell property which does not belong to him but to me; property which he has not bought and which I have not sold. Under this ruling I am now advertising that judge's homestead for sale, and, if I make as good a sum out of it as I expect, I shall go on and sell out the rest of his property. View quote
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You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is. View quote
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice. ... I have touched upon this matter in a small book which I wrote a generation ago and which I have not published as yet - Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. When Stormfield arrived in heaven he ... was told that ... a shoemaker ... was the most prodigious military genius the planet had ever produced. View quote
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Adam, at Eve's grave: Wheresoever she was, THERE was Eden. View quote
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