Mark Twain Quotes, Talking Quotes, Cows Quotes

It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

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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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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

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The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

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

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In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

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Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

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Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

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But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

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