Mark Twain Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Long Quotes

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

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You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

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There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

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Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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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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In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.

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The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

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In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

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Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

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I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

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