Mark Twain Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Good Night Quotes

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

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Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

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Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

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I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

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Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

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Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.

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I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

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Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

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A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

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There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

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The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

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It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

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There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

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All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

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I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

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What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

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