Mark Twain Quotes, Book Quotes, Autumn Quotes

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

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It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

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Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

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It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

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For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

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Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

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It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

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In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

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Imagination labors best in distant fields.

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There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

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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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