Mark Twain Quotes, Over You Quotes, Free Will Quotes

Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

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To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

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In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

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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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Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

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Too much is just enough.

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A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

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Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

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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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But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

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To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

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When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!

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Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.

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Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

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I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.

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We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

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The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

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Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

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I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

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