Mark Twain Quotes, War Quotes, Southern Quotes

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

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The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

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Chastity - you can carry it too far.

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

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Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

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I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

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Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.

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God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

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Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

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There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

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A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

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I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

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We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

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He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

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In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

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I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

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