Mark Twain Quotes, Communication Quotes, Talking Quotes

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

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When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

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It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when he came down to earth, he became the opposite... sweet, gentle merciful, forgiving. He was a thousand billion times crueler than ever he was in the Old Testament... Meek and gentle? By and by we will examine that popular sarcasm by the light of the hell which he invented.

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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

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I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

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Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.

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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

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You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

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To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

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Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

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If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

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You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

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I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

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On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

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