Mark Twain Quotes, Optimism Quotes

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

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My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

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Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

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There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

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In truth I care little about any party's politicsthe man behind it is the important thing.

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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

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Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

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The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.

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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

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If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.

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You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

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You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

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When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

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All gods are better than their reputation.

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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

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Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

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