Mark Twain Quotes, Pessimistic Quotes, Pessimist Quotes

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

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Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

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I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

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when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

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A better idea than my own is to listen.

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There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

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Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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To stand still is to fall behind.

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Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

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