Mark Twain Quotes, Horse Quotes, Laughing Quotes

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

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The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

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If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

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Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

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Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

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You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

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A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

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But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

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We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

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I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

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Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

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A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

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

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It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

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