Mark Twain Quotes, Joy Quotes, Looks Quotes

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

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Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

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In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

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...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

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Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

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No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

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Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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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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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

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My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.

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