Mark Twain Quotes, Mother Quotes, Knees Quotes

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

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The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

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It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

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That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

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Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

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One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

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When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

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Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

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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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Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

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In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

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First catch your Boer, then kick him.

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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

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