Mark Twain Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Laughter Quotes

Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

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Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

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An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

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Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

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If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

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The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

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I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

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All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

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I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

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I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

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The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

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A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

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