Mark Twain Quotes, Compounds Quotes, Knows Quotes

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

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I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

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Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

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It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

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Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

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If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

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It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

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If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

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Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

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Congress: America's only true criminal class.

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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go.

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For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

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If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

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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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Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

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