Mark Twain Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Men Quotes

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

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Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

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When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

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That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.

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God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

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But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

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All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

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He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

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Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

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...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

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I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

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The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

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To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

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I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

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