Mark Twain Quotes, Youth Quotes

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

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Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild

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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

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I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

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Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then he can think better. I do not care much for this one; his ears are not alike; still, editor suggests the sound of Edward, and he will do. I could make him better if I had a model, but I made this one from memory. But is no particular matter; they all look alike, anyway. They are conceited and troublesome, and don't pay enough.

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Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879

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Man - a figment of God's imagination.

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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.

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Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

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I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

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It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

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Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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