Mark Twain Quotes, Girl Quotes, Skeletons Quotes

The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

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We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

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The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

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Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

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If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

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No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

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In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

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I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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The truth hurts, but silence kills.

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We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

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Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

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Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

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Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

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