Mark Twain Quotes, Nature Quotes

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

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The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

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In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

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We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

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Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

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And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

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But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

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The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

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The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

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Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

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It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

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Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

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