Mark Twain quotes - page 7

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. (Mark Twain)
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. View quote
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. View quote
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? View quote
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. View quote
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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. View quote
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. View quote
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I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't. View quote
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If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. View quote
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. View quote
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. (Mark Twain)
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. View quote
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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. View quote
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The lack of money is the root of all evil. View quote
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. View quote
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. View quote
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Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any. View quote
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Nothing that grieves us can be called little by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size. View quote
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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. View quote
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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live. View quote
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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become. (Mark Twain)
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. View quote
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A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds. View quote
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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. View quote
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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. View quote
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