Mark Twain Quotes, Heart Quotes, Wish Quotes

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

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The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

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When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.

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No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

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In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

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Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

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Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

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An honest politician is an oxymoron.

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I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

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By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

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More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

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I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.

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The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.

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Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

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The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

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You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

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There is no humor in heaven.

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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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