Mark Twain Quotes, Book Quotes, Cat Quotes

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

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What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

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No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

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Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

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If I had more time, I would have written less.

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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

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I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

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Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

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I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry.

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

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All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

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I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

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We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

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The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

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Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

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A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

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I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

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