Mark Twain Quotes, World Quotes, Authority Quotes

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

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One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

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A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

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It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

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I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?

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You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

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To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

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I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

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Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

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Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

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Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

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He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

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You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

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