Mark Twain Quotes, Land Quotes, Names Quotes

I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

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Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

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A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

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We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

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Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

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For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

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God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

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The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

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Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

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I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.

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If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth and, diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child, settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and sting, worry and fret and madden the worn and tried mother who watches by the child and humbly prays for mercy and relief with the pathetic faith of the deceived and the unteachable.

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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

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Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

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None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

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