Mark Twain Quotes

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

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Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

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School gets in the way of my learning.

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I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

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The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

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I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

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There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

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Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

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I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

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The southerner talks music.

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The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

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Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

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There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

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