Mark Twain Quotes, Fall Quotes, Character Quotes

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

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How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.

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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

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All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

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Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

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I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

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Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

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To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

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It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

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That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

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Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

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Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

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Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

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Everything human is pathetic

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Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

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...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

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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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