Mark Twain Quotes, Girl Quotes, Boys Quotes

I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

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Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

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Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

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It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

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I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

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If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

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Names are not always what they seem.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

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Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

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If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

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Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

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A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

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There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

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Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

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No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

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