Mark Twain Quotes, Grief Quotes, Loss Quotes

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

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Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

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Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

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A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

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Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

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I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

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No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

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The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

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The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

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Labor in loneliness is irksome.

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Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

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The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

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Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

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Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

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