Mark Twain Quotes, Real Quotes, Mind Quotes

Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

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No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

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Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

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It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

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Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

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I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

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Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

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A better idea than my own is to listen.

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

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when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

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The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

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Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

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Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

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The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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