Mark Twain Quotes, Matter Quotes

How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

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There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

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In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

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We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

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In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

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It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

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I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

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No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

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There is no humor in heaven.

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We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

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A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

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Explore. Dream. Discover.

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Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

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The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

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Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

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