Mark Twain Quotes, Believe Quotes

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

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The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

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Man - a figment of God's imagination.

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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

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Make your vacation your vocation.

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I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

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Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

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Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

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I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

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If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

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We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

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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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It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?

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Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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