Mark Twain Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Play Quotes

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

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In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

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I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

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You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

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Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing; you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water.

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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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All generalizations are false, including this one.

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It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

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My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

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I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

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Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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

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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

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God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

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

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Whatever you say, say it with conviction

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I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

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