Mark Twain Quotes

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

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I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

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History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

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Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!

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To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

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The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

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

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Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

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You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

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The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is an impossible task. You can certainly experience moments in absence of fear, however accept that fear will be with you whenever you are in the process of living creatively. The challenge is to go ahead regardless, simply notice the feeling and manage being courageous.

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If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

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I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

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When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

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The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

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Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

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The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

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