Mark Twain Quotes, Editors Quotes, Clothes Quotes

That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

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There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

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Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

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God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

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Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

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Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

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If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

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Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

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My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

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Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

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Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

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The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

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When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

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Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

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