Mark Twain Quotes, Law Quotes, People Quotes

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

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My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

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I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict was worthless. It might underrate a work of high merit and lose it to the world, or it might overrate a trashy production and so open the way for its infliction upon the world. I said that the great public was the only tribunal competent to sit in judgment upon a literary effort, and therefore it must be best to lay it before that tribunal in the outset, since in the end it must stand or fall by that mighty court's decision any way.

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It were not best that we should all think alike.

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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

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But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

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from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.

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I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

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Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

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You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

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A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

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When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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Life is short, break the rules.

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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

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Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

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Always obey your parents - when they are present.

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