Mark Twain Quotes, Experience Quotes, Wish Quotes

There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of lifelife's "experiences"are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.

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Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

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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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Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

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The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

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Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

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I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

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As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them in rotation (there are only two or three thousand of them), stick to it, commit two or three every day, and by and by you will be proof against them. When you are through you will be proof against all sins and morally perfect. You will be vaccinated against every possible commission of them. This is the only way.

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Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

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Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

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All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

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You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

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But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

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You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

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The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

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If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive.

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