Mark Twain Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Uncomfortable Quotes

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

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Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

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In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

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If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

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It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

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When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

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The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

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Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

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Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

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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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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

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The ancients stole all our ideas from us.

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A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

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When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

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Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

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The best of us would rather be popular than right.

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The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

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You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

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I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

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