Mark Twain Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

Labor in loneliness is irksome.

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Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

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None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

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It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.

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Definite speech means clarity of mind.

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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

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The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.

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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

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God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.

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The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

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School gets in the way of my learning.

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You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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