Mark Twain Quotes, Garden Quotes, Novelty Quotes

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

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The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

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It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

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Be good and you will be lonely.

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I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

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I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

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The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

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Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

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

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We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.

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As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

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I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

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