Mark Twain Quotes, Inspiration Quotes, Wind Quotes

Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

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If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

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A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

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Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

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

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A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

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When in doubt tell the truth.

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The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

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He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

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This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.

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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

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A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

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Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

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It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

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Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

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Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

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But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

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