Mark Twain Quotes, Boys Quotes, Used Quotes

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

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How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

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When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

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It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

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In love, you pay as you leave.

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No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

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I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

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We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

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Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.

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These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.

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When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.

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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

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Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

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That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.

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What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

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Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

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I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

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