Mark Twain Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Thinking Quotes

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

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I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

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Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

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There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

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A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

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The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

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I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

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Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

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All human rules are more or less idiotic.

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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

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There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

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But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

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A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little less frown, A little less kicking, A man while he's down, A little more "We", A little less "I", A little more laugh, A little less cry, A little more flowers, On the pathway of life, And fewer on graves, At the end of the strife.

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