Mark Twain Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
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I can't not be who I am.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
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It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises.
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“The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and religion... I have been told they have thrown off the mask and are preaching to the people to elect none but godly men to represent them in the General and State Legislatures; ... what they mean by godly people, is people of their own stamp...”
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
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To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
