Mark Twain Quotes, Memories Quotes, Reality Quotes

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

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What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

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

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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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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

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If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."

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Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

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Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

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Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

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One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

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Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

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All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

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We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

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Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

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You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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