Mark Twain Quotes, Men Quotes, Clothes Quotes

A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.

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A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

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If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth and, diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child, settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and sting, worry and fret and madden the worn and tried mother who watches by the child and humbly prays for mercy and relief with the pathetic faith of the deceived and the unteachable.

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The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

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Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is different for each of us is the training, education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have.

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

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Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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We can't reach old age by another man's road.

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There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

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What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

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I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

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The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

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An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

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Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

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A wanton waste of projectiles.

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This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

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We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

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