Mark Twain Quotes, Change Quotes, Men Quotes

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

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Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

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Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

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There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

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The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

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In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

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Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

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An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

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Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

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I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.

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Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

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I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.

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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

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A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

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The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

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