Mark Twain Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Training Quotes

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

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There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

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Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

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It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

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If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

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I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

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The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

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More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

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Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

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Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

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Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

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[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

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...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

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In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

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We must put up with our 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. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.

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