Mark Twain Quotes, Work Quotes, Writing Quotes

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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[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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Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

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Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

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Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

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What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

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We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.

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How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

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The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

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I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

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When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.

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If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

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Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

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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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