Mark Twain Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Ordinary Quotes

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

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I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.

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To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

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While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

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A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

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Tight pants are just uncomfortable.

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Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

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Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

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when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

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Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

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I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

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So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

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What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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