Mark Twain Quotes, Humorous Quotes, Brain Quotes

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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It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

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From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.

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And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.

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Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

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When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

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Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

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An honest politician is an oxymoron.

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You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.

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It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

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The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

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The southerner talks music.

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If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

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Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

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I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

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There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

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Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

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We are all beggars, each in his own way.

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When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

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