Mark Twain Quotes, Travel Quotes

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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The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.

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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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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

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Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

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I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

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Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

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Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

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There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell.

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God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

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I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

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The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

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If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

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

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You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

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The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

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