Mark Twain Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Tails Quotes

If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

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But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

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All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

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I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do.

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Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

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Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

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A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

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The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

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They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

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There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

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I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

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If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

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You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

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It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

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One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

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An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

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