Mark Twain Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Cat Quotes

He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

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Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

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Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

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Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

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If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

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That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

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The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

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After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

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Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

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I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

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Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

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The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

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The ancients stole all our ideas from us.

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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, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

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