Mark Twain Quotes, Home Quotes, Cat Quotes

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

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...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

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Be good and you'll be lonesome

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

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But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

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I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

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Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

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All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

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So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in your essays. What you do today is important, because you are sacrificing a day of your life for it. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

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A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

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Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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