Mark Twain Quotes, Sorry Quotes, Greatness Quotes

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

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Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

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Books are the liberated spirits of men.

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You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.

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Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

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The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

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Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

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All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

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Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

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Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon Himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship Him!

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I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

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Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

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