Mark Twain Quotes, Writing Quotes, Boys Quotes

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

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Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

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Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

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The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

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It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

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We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

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You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

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It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

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Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

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I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

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Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

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There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

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To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

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Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

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There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of lifelife's "experiences"are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.

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