Mark Twain Quotes, Letting Go Quotes, Book Quotes

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

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And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

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the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

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The heart is the real fountain of youth.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for certain that just ain't true." Thinking that you know the future.

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When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

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Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

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In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

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It's not as bad as it sounds.

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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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It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

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But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

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My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

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A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.

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There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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