Mark Twain Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Heart Quotes

Comedy keeps the heart sweet.

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I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

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Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

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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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A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.

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I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

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The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

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The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

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I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

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Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

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Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

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Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

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...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

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What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

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Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

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