Mark Twain Quotes, Heart Quotes, Luck Quotes

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

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One must travel, to learn.

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I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

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

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

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I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

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I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

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I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

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I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

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That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then he can think better. I do not care much for this one; his ears are not alike; still, editor suggests the sound of Edward, and he will do. I could make him better if I had a model, but I made this one from memory. But is no particular matter; they all look alike, anyway. They are conceited and troublesome, and don't pay enough.

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Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

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But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

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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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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

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Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

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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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The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

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If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

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Be good and you'll be lonesome

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