Mark Twain Quotes

I said nothing of the sort.

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

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Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

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Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

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I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

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I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

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If I had more time, I would have written less.

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All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

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... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

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The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

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Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

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There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

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There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

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