Mark Twain Quotes

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

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Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.

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If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.

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The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.

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it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

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I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

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I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

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Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

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I can live for two months on a good compliment.

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I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

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In love, you pay as you leave.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

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My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

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Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

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Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

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It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

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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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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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