Mark Twain Quotes, Rivers Quotes, Water Quotes

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

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How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

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Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

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In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.

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A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

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Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

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Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

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Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

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The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

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I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

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Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

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A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

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The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

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When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

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