Mark Twain Quotes, Law Quotes, History Quotes

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

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Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.

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Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

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Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

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Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

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We are all alike, on the inside.

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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

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Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first things the little boys and girls learn is to be righteous and holy and not piss against the wall. They study those passages more than they study any others, except those which incite to masturbation. Those they hunt out and study in private.

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The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

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If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

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I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

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Don't wait the time is never just right.

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The solution to our water problems is more rain.

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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

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If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

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None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

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Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

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This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.

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