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Quotations by author » Mark Twain
American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910
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There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.
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There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.
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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
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There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he is crooked.
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Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.
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They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
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This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
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This old stone tower was very massive--and rather ruinous, too, for it was Roman, and four hundred years old. Yes, and handsome, after a rude fashion, and clothed with ivy from base to summit, as with a shirt of scale mail.
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.
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Thrusting my nose firmly between his teeth, I threw him heavily to the ground on top of me
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work
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Thunder is good. Thunder is impressive. But it's the lightning does the work.
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Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.
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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
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To be busy is man's only happiness.
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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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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer.
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To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing
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To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
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To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology
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