Mark Twain Quotes, Science Quotes, Mountain Ranges Quotes

That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

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The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

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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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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

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Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

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Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

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If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

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Everything human is pathetic

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The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.

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So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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