Mark Twain Quotes, Men Quotes, Effort Quotes

If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.

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If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

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Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

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I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

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I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry.

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.

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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

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One must travel, to learn.

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Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

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All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I can not change. For the dreams of yesterday are the challenges of today, and the hope for tomorrow.

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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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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

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There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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There is no humor in heaven.

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...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

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Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

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