Mark Twain Quotes, Trust Quotes, Believe Quotes

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

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A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

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Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

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Explore. Dream. Discover.

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

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I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.

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Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

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The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

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Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

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There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

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Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

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An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

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None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

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It's not as bad as it sounds.

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I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

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