Mark Twain Quotes, Girl Quotes, Skeletons Quotes

The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

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I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

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I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

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Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

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I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

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If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

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We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

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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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If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

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I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

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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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I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

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It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

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We are all beggars, each in his own way.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

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No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

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A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

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