Mark Twain Quotes, Growing Quotes, Littles Quotes

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

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Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.

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Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

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A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

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I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

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

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Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

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Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

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You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

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Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

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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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Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

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I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

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I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

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Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

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Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

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The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.

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