Mark Twain Quotes, Characteristics Quotes

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

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Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

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

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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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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

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I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

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Always obey your parents - when they are present.

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All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

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Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

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It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

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It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

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We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

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Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

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I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I can not change. For the dreams of yesterday are the challenges of today, and the hope for tomorrow.

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A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

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A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

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He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

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