Mark Twain Quotes, Witty Quotes, Truth Quotes

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

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I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

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...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'

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A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

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I was born modest, but it didn't last.

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

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

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The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

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

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Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

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It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

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You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

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Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

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The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

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The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

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It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change and external circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilant after declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set up structures that support you staying on target.

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The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

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