Mark Twain Quotes, Book Quotes, Talking Quotes

It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company--for he did all the talking.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

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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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Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

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There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

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To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

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Geological time is not money.

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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

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But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

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But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

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There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

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Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

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When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

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Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

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I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.

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