Mark Twain Quotes, Lonely Quotes, New York Quotes

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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My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

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An honest politician is an oxymoron.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

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A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little less frown, A little less kicking, A man while he's down, A little more "We", A little less "I", A little more laugh, A little less cry, A little more flowers, On the pathway of life, And fewer on graves, At the end of the strife.

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Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

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I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

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The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

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