Mark Twain Quotes, Successful Quotes, Reflection Quotes

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

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Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.

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In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

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And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

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If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

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We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

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Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

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Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

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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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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

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After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

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Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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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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Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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