Mark Twain Quotes, Example Quotes, Annoying Quotes

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

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If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

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There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

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Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.

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My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

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I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?

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Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

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Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

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Children and fools always speak the truth

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We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

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Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

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The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

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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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