Mark Twain Quotes, Cities Quotes, Trying Quotes

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

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Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

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Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

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A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

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The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

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It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

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The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

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One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

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The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely noticeable... The dull and ignorant physician day and night, and all the days and all the nights, drenched his patient with vast and hideous doses of the most repulsive drugs to be found in the store´s stock. He kept him religion sick for eighteen centuries, and allowed him not a well day during all that time.

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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

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