Mark Twain Quotes, Running Quotes, Heart Quotes

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

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Definite speech means clarity of mind.

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The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

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A better idea than my own is to listen.

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

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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We have the best government that money can buy.

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In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

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It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

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Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

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It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

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The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

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

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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

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I said nothing of the sort.

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I like criticism, but it must be my way.

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Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

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