Mark Twain Quotes, Death Quotes, Honesty Quotes

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

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I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

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I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

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I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

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I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

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Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

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To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

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A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

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All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

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My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

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a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

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We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

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A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

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I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

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