Mark Twain Quotes, Born Quotes

There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

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Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

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I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

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God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.

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A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

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To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

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I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

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I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

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But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

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The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

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A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little less frown, A little less kicking, A man while he's down, A little more "We", A little less "I", A little more laugh, A little less cry, A little more flowers, On the pathway of life, And fewer on graves, At the end of the strife.

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Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.

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The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

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The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

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