Mark Twain Quotes, Time Quotes, Smoking Quotes

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

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We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

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If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

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On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.

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It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.

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The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.

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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

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one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

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When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

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A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

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Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

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Old Time the clock-setter.

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

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