Mark Twain Quotes, Lying Quotes, Praying Quotes

You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

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Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

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Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

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If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

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India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

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Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

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There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

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I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

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If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

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My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

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Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

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

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Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

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Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

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