Mark Twain Quotes, Couple Quotes, Whales Quotes

Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

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I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

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I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.

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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

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Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

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God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

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Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

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I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through. W.H. Davies I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.

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Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

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I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

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If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

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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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Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

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

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The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

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Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

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