Mark Twain Quotes, Death Quotes, Honesty Quotes

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing, never let on; kept it to myself; it's the best way; then you don't have no quarrels, and don't get into no trouble. If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadn't no objections, 'long as it would keep peace in the family; and it warn't no use to tell Jim, so I didn't tell him. If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

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An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

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Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

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Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

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The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

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Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

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I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

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

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The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

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The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

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Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

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I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

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More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

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When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

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When in doubt tell the truth.

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