Mark Twain Quotes

I am not an American. I am the American.

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The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.

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We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

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The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

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The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

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Don't wait the time is never just right.

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To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

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If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

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Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

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A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

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

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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

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You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

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...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

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Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

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