Mark Twain Quotes, Honesty Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

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A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

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Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

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It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me.

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We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

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There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

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I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

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It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

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the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.

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I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

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It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

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It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

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Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

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There is no security in life, only opportunity.

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Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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