Mark Twain Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

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One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

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I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

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Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

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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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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

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If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

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It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

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It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

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What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

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There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

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In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

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