Mark Twain Quotes, Heart Quotes, Eye Quotes

To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

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A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

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There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

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I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

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Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

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France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.

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Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

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We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.

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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

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An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

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The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

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Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

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You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

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

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An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .

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The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

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The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

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