Mark Twain Quotes, Memories Quotes, Character Quotes

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

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If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

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There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

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It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

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Be good and you will be lonely.

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

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Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

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Books are the liberated spirits of men.

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Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

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When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

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For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

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Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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