Mark Twain Quotes

None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

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The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

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Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

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Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

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Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

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there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

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There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

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All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

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I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

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It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

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Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

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There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

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In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

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If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

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