Mark Twain Quotes, Boys Quotes, Men Quotes

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

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We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

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I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

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

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When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

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I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.

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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

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It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

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A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?

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Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

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Everything human is pathetic

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I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

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It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

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Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

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No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

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