Mark Twain Quotes, Years Quotes, Insanity Quotes

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

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I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

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Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

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Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

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The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

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In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

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When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

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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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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

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I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

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I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.

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I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes to know with certainty that a particular thing is "true", will actually be the very thing that keeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.

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Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

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Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

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The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

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The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

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