Mark Twain Quotes, Book Quotes, Voice Quotes

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

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Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

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If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

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A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

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Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

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Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

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Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

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Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

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I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

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I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

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Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

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You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

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