Mark Twain quotes - page 43

I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead. (Mark Twain)
A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.
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A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.
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It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.
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Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.
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It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.
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It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.
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For England must not fall it would mean an inundation of Russian and German political degradations which would envelop the globe and steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night and slaverly which would last till Christ comes again--which I hope he will n.
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Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except for heaven and hell, and I have only a vague curiosity as concerns one of those.
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The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world's luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took we know it because she repented.
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Earn a character first if you can. And if you can't, assume one. (Mark Twain)
An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.
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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them - then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get.
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Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a brightcolored flower in his buttonhole.
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We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.
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The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal.
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We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we had ever invented human liberty.
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It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.
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What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency Change. Who is the really consistent man The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.
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All of us contain Music and Truth, but most of us can't get it out.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. (Mark Twain)
The convention missionaries call modesty has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim -- anybody's diseased caprice.
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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare.
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A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
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Truth is neither alive nor dead it just aggravates itself all the time.
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