Mark Twain Quotes, Desire Quotes, Riches Quotes

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

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If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

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Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

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Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

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We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true--humor.

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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

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I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

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A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

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In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

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