Mark Twain Quotes, Fashion Quotes, Silly Quotes

...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

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In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

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Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

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The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

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Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

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Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

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If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

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Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.

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Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

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Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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One must travel, to learn.

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The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

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Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

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