Mark Twain Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Garden Quotes

Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

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If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

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Labor in loneliness is irksome.

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The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

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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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Congress: America's only true criminal class.

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Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

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Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

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Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

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Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

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Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.

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I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

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On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

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Make your vacation your vocation.

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

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It is easier to stay out than get out.

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One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

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