Mark Twain Quotes, Rivers Quotes, Water Quotes

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

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Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows

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Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

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The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

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I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

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The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

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Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

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Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

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A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

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Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

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At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.

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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

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The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

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