Mark Twain Quotes, Heart Quotes, Men Quotes

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

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The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.

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Homely truth is unpalatable.

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Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

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Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

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The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.

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God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

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The southerner talks music.

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Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.

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God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

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In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

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Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

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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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The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

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Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

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My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

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