Mark Twain Quotes, Fall Quotes, Mean Quotes

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

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Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

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It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

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Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

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I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

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I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

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Your actions speak so much louder than words.

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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

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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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In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

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Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

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I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

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

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I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.

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