Mark Twain Quotes, Editors Quotes, Clothes Quotes

That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

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Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

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Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

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Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

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The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

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Too much is just enough.

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Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

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Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

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when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

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Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

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A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

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India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

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Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

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