Mark Twain Quotes, Stars Quotes, Sunset Quotes

We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

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My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

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No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

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The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

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Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

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We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

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Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

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To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

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I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

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Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

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....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

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There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

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Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

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You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

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Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

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Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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