Mark Twain Quotes, Fall Quotes, Character Quotes

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

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I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

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The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.

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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

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Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

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There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

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What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

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We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.

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If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

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The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

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A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.

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A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

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Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

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No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

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Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

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