Mark Twain Quotes, Men Quotes

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

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What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

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The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

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An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

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I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

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One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

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We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.

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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

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There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

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Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

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Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

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Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

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What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

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I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

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It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity and summon the genie and command him to crown her with power and greatness and bring to her feet the hoarded treasures of the earth.

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I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

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... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

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