Mark Twain Quotes, Fruition Quotes

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

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People who always feel jolly, no matter where they are or what happens to themwho have the organ of hope preposterously developedwho are endowed with an uncongealable sanguine temperamentwho never feel concerned about the price of cornand who cannot, by any possibility, discover any but the bright side of a pictureare very apt to go to extremes, and exaggerate with 40-horse microscopic power.

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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

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There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

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I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

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I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

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We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for certain that just ain't true." Thinking that you know the future.

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It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

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A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

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Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

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Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

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The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

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