Mark Twain Quotes, Art Quotes, Two Quotes

Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

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I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

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My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

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To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

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My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

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....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

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I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

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A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

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I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

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Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.

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The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

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Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

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... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when he came down to earth, he became the opposite... sweet, gentle merciful, forgiving. He was a thousand billion times crueler than ever he was in the Old Testament... Meek and gentle? By and by we will examine that popular sarcasm by the light of the hell which he invented.

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