Mark Twain
Quotations
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“Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.” -Mark Twain
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“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” -Mark Twain
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“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.” -Mark Twain
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“I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.” -Mark Twain
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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.” -Mark Twain
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“The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.” -Mark Twain
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“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.” -Mark Twain
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“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.” -Mark Twain
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“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” -Mark Twain
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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” -Mark Twain
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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.” -Mark Twain
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“We have the best government that money can buy.” -Mark Twain
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“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” -Mark Twain
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“The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.” -Mark Twain
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“Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.” -Mark Twain
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“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.” -Mark Twain
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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.” -Mark Twain
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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.” -Mark Twain
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“Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.” -Mark Twain
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“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” -Mark Twain
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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.” -Mark Twain
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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.” -Mark Twain
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“My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.” -Mark Twain
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“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.” -Mark Twain
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“We have the best government that money can buy.” -Mark Twain
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“What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.” -Mark Twain
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“Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.” -Mark Twain
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“By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.” -Mark Twain
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“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.” -Mark Twain
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“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” -Mark Twain
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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.” -Mark Twain
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“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.” -Mark Twain
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“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” -Mark Twain
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“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.” -Mark Twain
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“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.” -Mark Twain
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“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” -Mark Twain
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“A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.” -Mark Twain
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“Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.” -Mark Twain
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“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.” -Mark Twain
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“When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.” -Mark Twain
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. – Mark Twain
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. -Mark Twain
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