Mark Twain Quotes, Bird Quotes, Feelings Quotes

You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.

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The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

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the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

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It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

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Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

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The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

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We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

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You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

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It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

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Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

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If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

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There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

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I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

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