Mark Twain Quotes

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

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One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

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The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

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It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

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A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

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Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

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Modesty died when clothes were born.

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I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

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Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

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You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

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Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

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History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

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He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

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