Mark Twain Quotes, Achievement Quotes, Firsts Quotes

...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

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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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Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

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I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

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But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

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The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

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Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

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We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

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When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

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I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.

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Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

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