Mark Twain Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Men Quotes

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

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Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club

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Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

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There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

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Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

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I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

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All human rules are more or less idiotic.

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But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!

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If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

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When congress is in session no American is safe.

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Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.

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You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

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Books are the liberated spirits of men.

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

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Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

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