Mark Twain Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Finding Yourself Quotes

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for certain that just ain't true." Thinking that you know the future.

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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

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The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

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I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

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There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

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He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

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It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.

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Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

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Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

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Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

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A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

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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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One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

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A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

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I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

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The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

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It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

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Children have but little charity for one another's defects

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