Mark Twain Quotes, Country Quotes, Believe Quotes

I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it...

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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

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Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

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The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

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It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

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Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

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Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

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I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

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I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

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I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

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Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

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...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

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The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

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