Mark Twain Quotes, Mean Quotes, Player Quotes

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

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Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

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If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

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If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

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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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Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

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Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

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As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.

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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

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Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

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In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

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When in doubt tell the truth.

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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

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Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

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Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

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Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

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The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

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