Mark Twain Quotes, Cutting Quotes, Play Quotes

Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.

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If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

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To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

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Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

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Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

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None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

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For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

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I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

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I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

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The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

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For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

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Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

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