Mark Twain Quotes, Dog Quotes, Men Quotes

The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

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We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

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Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

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I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.

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To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

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To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

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My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

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So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.

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The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

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One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

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Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

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I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

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Don't wait the time is never just right.

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To be busy is man's only happiness.

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But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.

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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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