Mark Twain Quotes, Opinion Quotes

The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

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The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

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The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.

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Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

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A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

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When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.

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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

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Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

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I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

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A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.

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The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

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I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.

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I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

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One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

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The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

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I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.

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A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

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