Mark Twain Quotes, Life Quotes, Grief Quotes

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

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Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

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He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

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I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

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The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

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There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.

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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

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A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.

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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

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Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

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His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

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When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

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I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

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But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

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I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

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Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

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Man - a figment of God's imagination.

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