Mark Twain Quotes, Work Quotes, Ruins Quotes

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

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A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

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When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

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I was born modest, but it didn't last.

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A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

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Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

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The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

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Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

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There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

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There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

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No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

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Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

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A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he is a jackass; but anobleman is not valuable because he is a jackass. It is a mixture that is always ineffectual, and should never have been attempted in the first place. And yet, once you start a mistake, the trouble is done and you never know what is going to come of it.

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