Mark Twain Quotes, Cat Quotes, Men Quotes

A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

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We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

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The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

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What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

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All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

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Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

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The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

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All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

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In love, you pay as you leave.

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What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

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When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

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Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

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The real yellow peril: Gold.

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