Mark Twain Quotes

The southerner talks music.

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It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

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The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.

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It is higher and nobler to be kind.

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Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

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Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

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I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

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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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We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

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He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

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...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

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