Mark Twain Quotes, Mind Quotes

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

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The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

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Sometimes people do get hurt

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We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

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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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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

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Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

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I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.

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When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

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How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

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A wanton waste of projectiles.

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It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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