Mark Twain Quotes, Love Quotes, Character Quotes

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

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Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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Life is short, break the rules.

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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

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To be busy is man's only happiness.

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...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

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I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

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Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

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We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

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To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

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

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We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

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Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

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