Mark Twain Quotes, Fire Quotes, Order Quotes

When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.

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...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

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There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

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If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

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You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

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Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

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It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

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Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

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The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

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All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

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The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

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