Mark Twain Quotes, Grief Quotes, Loss Quotes

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

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Imagination labors best in distant fields.

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I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

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That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

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Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

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Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

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I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

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Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

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It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

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A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

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To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

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The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.

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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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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

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