Mark Twain Quotes, Dream Quotes, Coffee Quotes

After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

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One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

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To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

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When congress is in session no American is safe.

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Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

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...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

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Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

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I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

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

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Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

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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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They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.

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I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

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Do right and you will be conspicuous.

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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

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[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

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When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

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

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