Mark Twain Quotes, Country Quotes, 4th Of July Quotes

July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

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My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

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Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

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Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

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I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

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[Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you of the joys of life or you too will say...] There has been much tragedy in my life; [and] at least half of it actually happened.

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No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

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Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

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Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

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The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

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There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

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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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Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

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The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

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There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

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The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

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A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

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