Mark Twain Quotes, Couple Quotes, Whales Quotes

Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

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Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

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Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

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I don't want no better book than what your face is.

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Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

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There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

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We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

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A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

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There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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Let us save the tomorrows for work.

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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

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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

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I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.

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Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

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Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

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Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

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The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

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If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

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