Mark Twain Quotes, Horse Quotes, Men Quotes

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

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When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

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Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

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Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

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The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

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Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

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... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

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It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

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The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

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Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

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Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

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Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

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Strange is the man who practices his religion.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

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But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

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Homely truth is unpalatable.

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The heart is the real fountain of youth.

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