Mark Twain Quotes, Father Quotes, Boys Quotes

My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

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My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

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Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

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The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

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If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

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I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.

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If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

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He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

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Let us save the tomorrows for work.

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The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

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The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

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There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

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How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

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I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

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