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Quotations by author » Mark Twain
American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910
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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial
ActionPleasure
To eat is human, to digest, divine
Humanity
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
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To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals
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To make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man
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To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman
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To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing
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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Success
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do
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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience 4000 critics.
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.
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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except for heaven and hell, and I have only a vague curiosity as concerns one of those.
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
PrejudiceTravel
Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them
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True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god
Irreverence
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Truth
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
GodTruth
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
Truth
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
FictionTruth
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