Mark Twain Quotes, Experience Quotes, Wish Quotes

There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of lifelife's "experiences"are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.

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We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

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A man may have no bad habits and have worse

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The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

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The secret of making progress is to get started.

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Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

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If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

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The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

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The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

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After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

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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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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

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I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

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Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

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I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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