Mark Twain Quotes, Disappointment Quotes, Men Quotes

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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Strange is the man who practices his religion.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

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The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

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I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

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Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

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For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

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You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

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What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

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It's so damned humiliating.

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There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

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There is no humor in heaven.

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Tough times teach trust.

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