Mark Twain Quotes, Dog Quotes, Long Quotes

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

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Better a broken promise than none at all.

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Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

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How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

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I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

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These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.

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Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

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More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

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I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

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Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

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None but the dead have free speech.

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Never do wrong when people are looking.

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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

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It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

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Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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