Mark Twain Quotes, Stars Quotes

Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

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Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

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We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

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As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'

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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. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.

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A wanton waste of projectiles.

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An honest politician is an oxymoron.

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The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.

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What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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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.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

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When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

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

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I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

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Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

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