Mark Twain Quotes, Death Quotes, Believe Quotes

It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.

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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

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None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

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The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

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No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

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Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

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Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

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Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

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I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

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Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

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It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.

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isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

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