Mark Twain Quotes, Writing Quotes, Angel Quotes

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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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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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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It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

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It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

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The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

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If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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Too much is just enough.

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

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If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

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It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

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I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

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So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in your essays. What you do today is important, because you are sacrificing a day of your life for it. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

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