Mark Twain Quotes, Long Ago Quotes, Years Quotes

Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

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It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.

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If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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

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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

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How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

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When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

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Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

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