Mark Twain Quotes, Media Quotes, Talking Quotes

I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

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

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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

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I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.

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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

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Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

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A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely noticeable... The dull and ignorant physician day and night, and all the days and all the nights, drenched his patient with vast and hideous doses of the most repulsive drugs to be found in the store´s stock. He kept him religion sick for eighteen centuries, and allowed him not a well day during all that time.

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Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

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There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

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The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

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We are all alike, on the inside.

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Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

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An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

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I don't want no better book than what your face is.

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Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

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