Mark Twain Quotes, Youth Quotes

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

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You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

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The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

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In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

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In love, you pay as you leave.

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Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

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When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

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from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.

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The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

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Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

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Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

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Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

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