Mark Twain Quotes, Circles Quotes, Two Quotes

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

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Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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I've never let my school interfere with my education.

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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

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We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

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Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.

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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

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It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

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Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

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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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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

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A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

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It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

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When congress is in session no American is safe.

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