Mark Twain Quotes, Pain Quotes, Revenge Quotes

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

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Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.

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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

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The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, "Where is the best place to go to?" He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society.

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For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

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If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

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Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

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In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

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Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

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

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If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

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There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

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It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

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What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

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