Mark Twain Quotes, Decision Quotes, Bad Decision Quotes

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

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What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

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Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

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One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

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We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

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Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.

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Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.

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It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

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Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

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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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The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

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Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

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I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

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It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

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We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

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