Mark Twain Quotes, Rain Quotes, New Orleans Quotes

But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

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If all men were rich, all men would be poor.

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I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

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

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It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

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Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal

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I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

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The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

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Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

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If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

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Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

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I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

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Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

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