Mark Twain Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Taken Quotes

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

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I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

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God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

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But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

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Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.

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Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

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We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

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There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

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I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

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We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

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Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

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