Mark Twain Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Knowing Quotes

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

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Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

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It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

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I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

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The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.

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I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

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It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

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I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

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All gods are better than their reputation.

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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

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Faith is believing things you know aint true

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I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

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What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

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Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

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As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.

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