Mark Twain Quotes, Taken Quotes, Sleep Quotes

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.

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What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

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There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

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Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

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God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

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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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Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

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Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

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December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

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In love, you pay as you leave.

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God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company

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We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

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The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

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I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

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How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

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The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

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