Mark Twain Quotes, Speech Quotes

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

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And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

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You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

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I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

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The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

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We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

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My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

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I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

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Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

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A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.

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I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

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Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

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After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

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