Mark Twain Quotes, Humor Quotes, Thinking Quotes

So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far more widely distributed. But it has its value, I think. The hard and sordid things of life are too hard and too sordid and too cruel for us to know and touch them year after year without some mitigating influence, some kindly veil to draw over them, from time to time, to blur the craggy outlines, and make the thorns less sharp and the cruelties less malignant.

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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

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Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

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If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

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A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

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

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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

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There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

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Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

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It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

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Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

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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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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

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How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

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If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

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It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

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If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

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