Mark Twain Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes, Death Quotes

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

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Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

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A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.

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Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

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I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

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The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

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

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Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

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It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?

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When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

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...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

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When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

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The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

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The secret of making progress is to get started.

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Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

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