Mark Twain Quotes, Bird Quotes, Should Quotes

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

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Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

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It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

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If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

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Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

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Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

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Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

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I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

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Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

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There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

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What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

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Names are not always what they seem.

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This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.

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Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.

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