Mark Twain Quotes, Law Quotes, People Quotes

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

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Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

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I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?

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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

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Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

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It were not best that we should all think alike.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

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Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

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It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.

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We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

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I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

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I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

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I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.

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When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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