Mark Twain Quotes, Successful Quotes, Reflection Quotes

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

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Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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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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To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

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If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth and, diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child, settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and sting, worry and fret and madden the worn and tried mother who watches by the child and humbly prays for mercy and relief with the pathetic faith of the deceived and the unteachable.

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

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I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

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Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

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My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

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There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

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Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

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How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

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Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

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Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

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We can't reach old age by another man's road.

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