Mark Twain Quotes, Book Quotes, Interesting Quotes

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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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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English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

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Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

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Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

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History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

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I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

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The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

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There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

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Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

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Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

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Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

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Make your vacation your vocation.

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I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

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If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

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All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

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None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

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I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.

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