Mark Twain Quotes, Judging Quotes, People Quotes

No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

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None but the dead have free speech.

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Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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Hunger is the handmaid of genius

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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

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And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

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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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The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

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Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

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Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

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Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

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It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

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Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

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I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

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