Mark Twain Quotes, Mean Quotes, Thinking Quotes

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

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Tough times teach trust.

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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

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It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

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Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

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The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

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I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

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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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If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

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When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.

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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

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Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

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Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

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There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

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Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

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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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