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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend. (Mark Twain)
We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal. View quote
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When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest. View quote
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Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops man would have made him with an appetite for sand. View quote
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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think -- yes, it was three I attended their funerals. View quote
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I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world. View quote
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There is no use in walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home. View quote
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There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort. View quote
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My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got. View quote
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A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand. View quote
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Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals. (Mark Twain)
I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception. View quote
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A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial. View quote
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All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm. View quote
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Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform. View quote
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A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it. View quote
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To be busy is man's only happiness. View quote
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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. View quote
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Children and fools always speak the truth. View quote
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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people. View quote
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Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine. (Mark Twain)
Who is this Renaissance Where did he come from Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs. View quote
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An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war. View quote
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This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy. View quote
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Happiness ain't a thing in itself -- it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. . . . And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh. View quote
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