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Quotations by author » Mark Twain
American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910
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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Truth
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
FootballTruth
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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Use the right word and not its second cousin
Words
Virtue has never been as respectable as money
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Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license
Voting
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
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War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull
War
Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.
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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Suffering
We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.
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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking
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We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.
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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
Principles
We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
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We are all alike on the inside
HumanityMankindPeople
We are all beggars, each in his own way.
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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
Praise
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
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