Mark Twain Quotes, Past Quotes, Moments Quotes

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

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But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

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Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

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Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

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There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.

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The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

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I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

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My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

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It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

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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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