Mark Twain Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Years Quotes

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

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When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.

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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.

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No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

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We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.

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The average man don't like trouble and danger.

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Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

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Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

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Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

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But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!

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None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

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Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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