Mark Twain Quotes, Respect Quotes, Office Quotes

The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

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If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

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Don't wait the time is never just right.

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An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

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Names are not always what they seem.

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It is better to give than receive- especially advice.

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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

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I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

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Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

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Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

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Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.

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The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

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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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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

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To eat is human, to digest, divine

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