Mark Twain Quotes, Marriage Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

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I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

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Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

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If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

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Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

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In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

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We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

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I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

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Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

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The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.

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...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

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