Mark Twain Quotes, Boys Quotes, Used Quotes

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

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The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

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When angry, count to a hundred.

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So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

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Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

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It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

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The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

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Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

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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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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

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Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

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From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.

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There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

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There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

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Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

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We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

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