Mark Twain Quotes, Cat Quotes, Sunny Weather Quotes

When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.

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Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

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Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

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The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

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One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

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Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

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It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

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An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

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Be good and you will be lonely.

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Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

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I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

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There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

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A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

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