Mark Twain Quotes, Communication Quotes, Talking Quotes

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

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As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.

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I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

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What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

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The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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Strange is the man who practices his religion.

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It is your human environment that makes climate

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There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

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It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

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Children have but little charity for one another's defects

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Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

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It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

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Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

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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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...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

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When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

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The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

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