Mark Twain Quotes, People Quotes, Criticism Quotes

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

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As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'

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To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

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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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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

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Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

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Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

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The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

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How slow and still the time did drag along.

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The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

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Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

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He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

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Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

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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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Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

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