Mark Twain quotes - page 47

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either. (Mark Twain)
I admire him Cecil Rhodes, I frankly confess it and when his time comes I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake. View quote
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An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words it feels like music. View quote
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Love is a madness if thwarted it develops fast. View quote
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Heroine girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book. View quote
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Between us, we cover all knowledge he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. View quote
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It is a solemn thought Dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork. View quote
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Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let them label you as they may. View quote
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There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American. View quote
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well but also she will never sit. View quote
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We are always too busy for our children we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly. (Mark Twain)
The house was as empty as a beer closet in a premises where painters have been at work. View quote
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When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt. View quote
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The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to institutions are extraneous. . . . View quote
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The law of work does seem utterly unfair but there it is, and nothing can change it the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in money also. View quote
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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -- a hundred million years -- and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. View quote
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It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble. View quote
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Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution. View quote
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The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. View quote
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For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness. View quote
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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. (Mark Twain)
Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch. View quote
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I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct -- nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying. View quote
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A scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. View quote
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I do not want Michaelangelo for breakfast - but for luncheon - for dinner - for tea - for supper - for between meals. View quote
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