Mark Twain Quotes, Heart Quotes, Firsts Quotes

My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

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It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

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Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

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Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

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The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

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There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

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God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

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I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

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To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

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The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

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Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

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