Mark Twain Quotes, Writing Quotes, Men Quotes

A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

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I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

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The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

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God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.

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Chastity - you can carry it too far.

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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

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If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

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That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

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It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

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All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

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That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

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

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When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

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