Mark Twain Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

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It is better to give than receive- especially advice.

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Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

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How slow and still the time did drag along.

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That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.

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[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

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Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

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What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

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All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

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The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

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To eat is human, to digest, divine

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I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.

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Humor is tragedy plus time.

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History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

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That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

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Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

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Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

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