Mark Twain Quotes, Kings Quotes, Ornery Quotes

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

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I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.

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Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

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Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

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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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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

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If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

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When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

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Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

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The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

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This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

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Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

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Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

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

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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

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