Mark Twain Quotes, Writing Quotes, Boys Quotes

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

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The average man don't like trouble and danger.

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All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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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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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

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There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.

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This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for forty-four years. . . . [Footnote: Roughing It is dedicated to Higbie.] . . . I shall allow myself the privilege of copying his punctuation and his spelling, for to me they are a part of the man. He is as honest as the day is long. He is utterly simple-minded and straightforward, and his spelling and his punctuation are as simple and honest as he is himself. He makes no apology for them, and no apology is needed.

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Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

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It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

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Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

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The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

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