Mark Twain Quotes, Grief Quotes, Loss Quotes

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

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My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

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When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.

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Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

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Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

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As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'

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It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

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Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

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The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

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It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

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We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

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Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

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It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

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The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

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The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

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Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

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