Mark Twain quotes - page 39

Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it. (Mark Twain)
Nothing was made in vain, but the fly came near it. View quote
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We often feel sad in the presence of music without words and often more than that in the presence of music without music. View quote
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I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army. View quote
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The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor. View quote
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By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed. View quote
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What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear. View quote
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We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves. View quote
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You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it. View quote
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When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men. View quote
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Ours is the land of the free nobody denies that nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.) (Mark Twain)
Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us. View quote
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One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color. View quote
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In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience. View quote
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I like criticism, but it must be my way. View quote
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Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another. View quote
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Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice, it is merely custom. View quote
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'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.'I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me. View quote
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He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. View quote
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It is a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed. View quote
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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either. (Mark Twain)
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful. View quote
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I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way. View quote
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As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us. View quote
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I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it. View quote
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