Mark Twain Quotes, San Francisco Quotes

I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

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What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

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There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

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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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Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

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If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

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isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

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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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Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare. A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare, A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare! Punch, brothers! punch with care! Punch in the presence of the passenjare!

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A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

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Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

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One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

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I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

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Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

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Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

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You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

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I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.

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