Mark Twain Quotes, Joy Quotes, Looks Quotes

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

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If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

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It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

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Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

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I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

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there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

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Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

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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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If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

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Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

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Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia.

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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

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