Mark Twain quotes - page 40

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. (Mark Twain)
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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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously. View quote
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The heart is the real Fountain of Youth. View quote
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How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger death how abject in the presence of any all forms of hereditary rank. View quote
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Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness. View quote
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Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one. View quote
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Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up. View quote
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Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it. View quote
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A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it. View quote
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Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it. (Mark Twain)
You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first. View quote
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Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young, the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom, and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above, it was green with vegetation, and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting. View quote
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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes. View quote
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God puts something good and something lovable in every man His hands create. View quote
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Evolution is the law of policies Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on ''The Survival of the Fittest.'' These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution. View quote
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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it. View quote
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No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God. View quote
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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. View quote
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I have been an author for 22 years and an ass for 55. View quote
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Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death. (Mark Twain)
You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would. View quote
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I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant. View quote
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I could have become a soldier if I had waited I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating. View quote
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More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking. View quote
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