Mark Twain Quotes, Fall Quotes, Behinds Quotes

To stand still is to fall behind.

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I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.

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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

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I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

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Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

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First catch your Boer, then kick him.

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It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

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I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

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Life is short, break the rules.

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A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

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It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

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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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Never tell a lie-except for practice.

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Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

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The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths to destroy it.

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A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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There is no accounting for human beings.

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In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

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