Mark Twain Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Curious Quotes

It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

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"Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."

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To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I don't care where it's going to go.

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But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.

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I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

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The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

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Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

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One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.

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When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.

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It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores.

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If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

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Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?” Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested, “But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.” “Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

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... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

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We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.

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And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

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After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.

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