Mark Twain Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, New Orleans Quotes

Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

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... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

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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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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

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One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

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The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

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Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

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If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

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There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

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I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

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Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

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Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

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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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We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

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