Mark Twain Quotes, Prosperity Quotes

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

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When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

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Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

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Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.

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If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

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When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

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The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

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If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

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The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

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Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

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Honor is a harder master than the law.

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No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

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For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

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