Mark Twain Quotes - Page 2

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.
Mark Twain
What a good thing Adam had - when he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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Make it a point to do something every day 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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Richard Wagner a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
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When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
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It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
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In statesmanship get formalities right never mind about the moralities.
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Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.
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In his private heart no man much respects himself.
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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
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Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
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Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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It takes your enemy and your friend working together to hurt you to the heart the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
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Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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I was born modest not all over but in spots.
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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Lord save us all from ... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have the man looked honest enough.
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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We may not pay Satan reverence for that would be indiscreet but we can at least respect his talents.
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Happiness is a Swedish sunset it is there for all but most of us look the other way and lose it.
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To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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To be busy is man's only happiness.
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Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice it is merely custom.
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From his cradle to the grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind spiritual comfort for himself.
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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
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There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.
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Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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To be satisfied with what one has that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount that man isn't rich.
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The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?
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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
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The human race is a race of cowards and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
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Go to bed early get up early-this is wise.
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You can tell German wine from vinegar ... by the label.
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I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.
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Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor both to yourself and to your country let men label you as they may.
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The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency and a vice.
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.
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Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
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Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear.
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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
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Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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