Mark Twain Quotes, Fall Quotes, Character Quotes

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

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To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

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I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

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I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

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The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

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You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.

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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

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If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

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A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

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the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.

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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

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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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Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

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If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

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