Mark Twain Quotes, Hate Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.

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I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

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Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

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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.

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The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

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Definite speech means clarity of mind.

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These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

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It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

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I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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Let us save the tomorrows for work.

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If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

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Experience comes from bad judgment.

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Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

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The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

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The best of us would rather be popular than right.

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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

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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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Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

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