Mark Twain Quotes, Believe Quotes

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

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Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

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What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

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Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

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None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes to know with certainty that a particular thing is "true", will actually be the very thing that keeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.

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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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You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

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Never tell a lie-except for practice.

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Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

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Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

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It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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Comparison is the death of joy.

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