Mark Twain Quotes, Light Quotes, Sky Quotes

It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.

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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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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

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Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

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I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

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They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

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If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

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A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

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As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

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If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

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I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

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Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

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I said nothing of the sort.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

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