Mark Twain Quotes, Book Quotes, Moral Quotes

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

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Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

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Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

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When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

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A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

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A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

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I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

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Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

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The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

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Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

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I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

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Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

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