Mark Twain Quotes

Do right and you will be conspicuous.

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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity and summon the genie and command him to crown her with power and greatness and bring to her feet the hoarded treasures of the earth.

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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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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

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We have the best government that money can buy.

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

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I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

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All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.

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People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

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There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

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