Mark Twain Quotes, Heart Quotes, Men Quotes

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

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If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

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It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

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Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

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One must travel, to learn.

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Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

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...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

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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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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

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The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

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Better a broken promise than none at all.

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None but the dead have free speech.

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I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.

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In love, you pay as you leave.

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