Mark Twain Quotes, Dance Quotes, Party Quotes

I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

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Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

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The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

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Strange is the man who practices his religion.

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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

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Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

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I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

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The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

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

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

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Definite speech means clarity of mind.

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I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

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Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

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It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.

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Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

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