Mark Twain Quotes, Cousin Quotes, Grandmother Quotes

I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

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Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

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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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It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

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The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

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Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

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Brooklyn praise is half slander.

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Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

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It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

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Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

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