Mark Twain Quotes
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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I never let schooling interfere with my education.
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
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When in doubt tell the truth.
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
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The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.