Mark Twain Quotes, Country Quotes, Science Quotes

That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.

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The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

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Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

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To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

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I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

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Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

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Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

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Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

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The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

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If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

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Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

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Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity-- Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy and wealth and wise. As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.

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The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

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The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

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By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

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