Mark Twain Quotes, Together Quotes, Legends Quotes

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

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Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

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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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It is higher and nobler to be kind.

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A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.

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Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

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All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

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In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

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I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.

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Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

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When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.

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...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

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If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

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My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

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