Mark Twain Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Sometimes Quotes

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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When you catch an adjective, kill it.

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It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

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I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

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Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

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It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

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A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

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I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

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The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

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

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If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

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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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Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

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So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

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My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

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I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

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Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

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If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

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