Mark Twain Quotes, Running Quotes, Long Quotes

Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

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I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

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Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

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Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.

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The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

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All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

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You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.

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I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

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Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

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France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.

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It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

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By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

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Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

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Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

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