Mark Twain Quotes, Hands Quotes, Soul Quotes

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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The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

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I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

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It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

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I don't want no better book than what your face is.

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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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When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

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Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

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The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

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I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

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Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

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I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

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