Mark Twain Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, May Quotes

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

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But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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How slow and still the time did drag along.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

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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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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

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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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Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.

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The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

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The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

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If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

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