Mark Twain Quotes, Want Quotes

Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

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Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

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For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race - and of ours - sexual intercourse!It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!

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Modesty died when clothes were born.

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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

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I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

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It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

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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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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

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The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

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