Mark Twain Quotes, Brooklyn Quotes, Half Quotes

Brooklyn praise is half slander.

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We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

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Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

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I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

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

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There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

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Tough times teach trust.

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The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty. God's treatment of his earthly children, every day and every night, is the exact opposite of all that, yet those best minds warmly justify these crimes, condone them, excuse them, and indignantly refuse to regard them as crimes at all, when he commits them.

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I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

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Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

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I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

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Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

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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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Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

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All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

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And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows

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A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

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Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

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