Mark Twain Quotes, Determination Quotes, Succeed Quotes

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

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I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

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That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then he can think better. I do not care much for this one; his ears are not alike; still, editor suggests the sound of Edward, and he will do. I could make him better if I had a model, but I made this one from memory. But is no particular matter; they all look alike, anyway. They are conceited and troublesome, and don't pay enough.

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Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

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Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

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Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

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Comedy keeps the heart sweet.

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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

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There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

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No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

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They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

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