Mark Twain Quotes, Simple Quotes, Men Quotes

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

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Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

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We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

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It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

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A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

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Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

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How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

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Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

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To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

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Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

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Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

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Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

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