Mark Twain Quotes, Bird Quotes, Should Quotes

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

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My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

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I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

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The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.

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Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

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Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

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The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

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How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

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Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.

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The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

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They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

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We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

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One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

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...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

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If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

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