Mark Twain Quotes
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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
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To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
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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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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
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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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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
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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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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.
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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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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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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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The lack of money is the root of all evil.
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.