Mark Twain Quotes, Wine Quotes, Water Quotes

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

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I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.

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The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

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isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

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Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

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I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

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If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

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These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

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Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

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There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

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Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

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I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

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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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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

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