Mark Twain Quotes, Book Quotes, Autumn Quotes

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

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...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

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Homely truth is unpalatable.

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I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

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If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.

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Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

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When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

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Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

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I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

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If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

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Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

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When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.

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I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

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Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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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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