Mark Twain Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Gone Quotes

I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

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The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

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It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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

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I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

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I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

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Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

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Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

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Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

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The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

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None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

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Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

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They did not know it was impossible so they did it

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Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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Geological time is not money.

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

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