Mark Twain Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

Humor is tragedy plus time.

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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

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Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

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You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

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You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

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I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.

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To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

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

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The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

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Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

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We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

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Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

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