Mark Twain Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Past Quotes

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

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Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

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It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

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Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

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Tough times teach trust.

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We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

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We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

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...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

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Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

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The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

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when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

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I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

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As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

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