Mark Twain Quotes, Character Quotes, Years Quotes

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.

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For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

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To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

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When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

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To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

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A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

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God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company

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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

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You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.

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from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.

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I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

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Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

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I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

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Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

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Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for certain that just ain't true." Thinking that you know the future.

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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

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