Mark Twain Quotes, Business Quotes, Judging Quotes

When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

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There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

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Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

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The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

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You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

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Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

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If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

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A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

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A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.

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I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

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I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

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Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

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