Mark Twain Quotes, Suicide Quotes, Grief Quotes

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

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I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

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God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

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The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

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Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

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Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

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Be good and you'll be lonesome

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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

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I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.

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But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

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No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.

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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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...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

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All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

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