Mark Twain Quotes, Food Quotes, Long Quotes

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

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You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

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Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

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When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.

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There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

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When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

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One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

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None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

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He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

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We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

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Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

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When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

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God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

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There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

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