Mark Twain quotes - page 36

Temperate temperance is best intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. (Mark Twain)
The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind. View quote
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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings Family-circle narratives and obscene stories. View quote
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Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here whereas you are merely the most numerous. View quote
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Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently but one is vivid, and can do damage -- the other fools along and enjoys elaboration. View quote
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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people. View quote
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By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law. View quote
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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of civilization one for home consumption and one for the heathen market. View quote
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I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop. View quote
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It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time. View quote
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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. (Mark Twain)
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it. View quote
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The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. View quote
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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. View quote
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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force. View quote
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Custom is petrification nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century. View quote
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Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on. View quote
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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstacies cheap and trivial. View quote
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We Americans are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen. View quote
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Comedy keeps the heart sweet. View quote
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The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying such a laugh was money in a man's pocket because it cut down the doctor's bills like anything. (Mark Twain)
The noblest work of God Man. Who found it out Man. View quote
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In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities. View quote
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No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests. View quote
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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. View quote
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