Mark Twain Quotes, Death Quotes, Honesty Quotes

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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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

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Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

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We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

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All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

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[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.

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If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

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Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.

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When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

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It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

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the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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The heart is the real fountain of youth.

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I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once.

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When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

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You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

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