Mark Twain Quotes, Gratitude Quotes, Debt Quotes

Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

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If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.

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Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

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A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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There is only one good sex. The female one.

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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

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I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

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You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.

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Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

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The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made tremendously definite - the Christian must forgive his brother man all crimes he can imagine and commit, and all insults he can conceive and utter - forgive these injuries how many times? - seventy times seven - another way of saying there shall be no limit to this forgiveness. That is the spirit and the law of Christianity.

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It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

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I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

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Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

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

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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