Mark Twain Quotes, Broken Quotes, House Quotes

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

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And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!

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Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.

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There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.

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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

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REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

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Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

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Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

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I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

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I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.

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You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.

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I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.

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The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

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Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.

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Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.

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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

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The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.

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I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.

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One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

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in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.

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