| The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. |
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- Mark Twain |
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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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- Mark Twain |
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| In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night. |
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- Mark Twain |
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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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- Mark Twain |
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| Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. |
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- Mark Twain |
more quotations on [Optimism] |
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| Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. |
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- Mark Twain |
more quotations on [Genius] [Confidence] |
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| Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. |
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- Mark Twain |
more quotations on [Babies] [Dental] |
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| When red headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. |
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- Mark Twain |
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