Mark Twain Quotes, Fire Quotes

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

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I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

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[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

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On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

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Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

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God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

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I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

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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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A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

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He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

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Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

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Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.

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Children and fools always speak the truth

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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.

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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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