Mark Twain Quotes, Hero Quotes, Self Quotes

To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.

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An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

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It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

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When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

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The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

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One must travel, to learn.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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

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The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

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I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

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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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Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

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From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

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