Mark Twain Quotes, Men Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.

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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

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The truth hurts, but silence kills.

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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

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A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

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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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Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

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Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

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Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.

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If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

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How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

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Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

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The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

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In love, you pay as you leave.

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....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

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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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