Mark Twain Quotes, Charity Quotes, Scene Quotes

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

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You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

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You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

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When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

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Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

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Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

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Humor is tragedy plus time.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

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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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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

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an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.

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

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I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

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While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

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And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

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There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

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