Mark Twain quotes - page 44

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, know how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. (Mark Twain)
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon And does not hear her. View quote
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Is a person's public and private opinion the same It is thought there have been instances. View quote
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The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable. View quote
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There are two forces that can carry light to all corners of the globe -- the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press. View quote
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose. View quote
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I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison. View quote
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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire. View quote
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A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. View quote
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We recognize that there are no trivial occurences in life. View quote
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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -- the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself. (Mark Twain)
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency- and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency- and a vice. View quote
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Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs. View quote
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Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence and like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber and it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style. View quote
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Troubles are only mental it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them. View quote
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The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves. View quote
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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering and that was the fact that it is past - and can't be restored. View quote
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Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful. View quote
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Human nature is the same everywhere it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat. View quote
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The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he. View quote
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He gossips habitually he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue. (Mark Twain)
All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel. View quote
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The Pause that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it. View quote
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Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight - this is magnanimity but bet on the other one - this is business. View quote
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When the human race has once acquired a superstition nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it. View quote
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