Mark Twain Quotes, Wine Quotes, Water Quotes

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.

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That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

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An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

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After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

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My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

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Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

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When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

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When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

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Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

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

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Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

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In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

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The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

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