Mark Twain Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Truth Quotes

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

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There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

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We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

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I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

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I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

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To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

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I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

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I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

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I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

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Do right and you will be conspicuous.

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

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Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

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In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

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