Mark Twain Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Horse Quotes

Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

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The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

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A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

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You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

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What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

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Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

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We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

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We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

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All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

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Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

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Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

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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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Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.

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If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.

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A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

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