Mark Twain Quotes, Book Quotes

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

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Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

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You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

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From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

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Humor is man's greatest blessing.

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Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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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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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

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The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

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If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

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If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

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No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

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Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

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Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

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I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

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A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

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