Mark Twain Quotes, Practice Quotes, Giving Quotes

It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

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I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

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The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

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The average man don't like trouble and danger.

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I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

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Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

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You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

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The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

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They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

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The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

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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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If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

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It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.

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Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

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In literature imitations do not imitate.

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