Mark Twain Quotes, Wise Quotes, Boys Quotes

Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity-- Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy and wealth and wise. As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

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When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

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It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

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Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

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A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

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There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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I don't want no better book than what your face is.

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I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.

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You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

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Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

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Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

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The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

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For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

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The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

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To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

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