Mark Twain Quotes, Upset Quotes, Oratory Quotes

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

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Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

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Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

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Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

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I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.

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The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

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It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

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When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

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I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it...

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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Better a broken promise than none at all.

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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

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Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

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