Mark Twain Quotes, Hunting Quotes, Long Quotes

I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

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ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Practice Quotes , Long Quotes

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

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Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

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The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

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She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

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As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

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Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

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There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion.

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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

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So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.

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Walking helps me a lot to feel alive, and I do this every single day, my wife and I. We have long conversations about nature, and we also walk silently, just contemplating.

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

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The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.

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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

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A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

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The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.

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Thus, Protestantism will always stand up for the advancement of all Germans as such, as long as matters of inner purity or national deepening as well as German freedom are involved, since all these things have a firm foundation in its own being; but it combats with the greatest hostility any attempt to rescue the nation from the embrace of its most mortal enemy, since its attitude toward the Jews just happens to be more or less dogmatically established.

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