Mark Twain Quotes, Hero Quotes, Self Quotes

To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.

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I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

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Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

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The southerner talks music.

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[Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you of the joys of life or you too will say...] There has been much tragedy in my life; [and] at least half of it actually happened.

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Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

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And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

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One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

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I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

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In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

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