Mark Twain Quotes, Children Quotes, Fall Quotes

Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)

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As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.

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To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

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The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

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There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

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We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

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You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

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It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

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An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

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The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

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Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

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Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

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We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

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I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

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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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