Mark Twain Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Heart Quotes

Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

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And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

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I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

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One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

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Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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Strange is the man who practices his religion.

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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

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A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

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It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me.

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History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

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The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

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But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

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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 do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

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The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

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These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.

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