Mark Twain Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

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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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It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

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Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea.

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Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

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The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

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I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

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It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

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I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

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In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

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

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The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.

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