Mark Twain Quotes, Boys Quotes, Used Quotes

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

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The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

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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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To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

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You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

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When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

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We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's God...Our illogical God is all-powerful in name, but impotent in fact; the Great Spirit is not all-powerful, but does the very best he can for his injun and does it free of charge

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Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

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There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

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Everything human is pathetic

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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

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It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

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Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

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