Mark Twain Quotes, Wealth Quotes

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

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But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

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It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

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My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

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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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When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

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Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

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As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'

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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

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If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.

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As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.

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I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

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It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

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I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

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Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

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Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

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Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

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