Mark Twain Quotes, Death Quotes, Honesty Quotes

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

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What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

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After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

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Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.

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My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

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Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

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For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

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Be good and you will be lonely.

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You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

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The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

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My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

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It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

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They did not know it was impossible so they did it

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When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

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Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

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