Mark Twain Quotes, San Francisco Quotes

I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

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Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

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If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

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Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

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Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

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I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

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

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What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

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Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

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Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

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Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational shooting up of "smartness"--a bright feather, to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artificial.

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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

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Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

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