Mark Twain Quotes, Clothes Quotes

We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.

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I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

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Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.

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All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

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In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

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It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

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I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

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If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

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Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

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Use the right word, not its second cousin.

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

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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