In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.


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Now they have a riddle.

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Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
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But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.
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All good people agree,
And all good people say,
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An...
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There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain.
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If you want to meet Mark Twain, all you have to do is use your brain!
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Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
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Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.
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There is no greater glory than to die for love.
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Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
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She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
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I, Mark Twain being of sound mind, have spent everything
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Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
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They are suspicious in nature because they were set within minutes of each other. We do have some de...
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We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about whic...
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To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
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We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is enta...
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without d...
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Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegat...
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They unloaded in the second half. We played hard, but they just have a lot of really good athletes.
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They just have no idea that they might be consuming half of a very small stream coming down from the...
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No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
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It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
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There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
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The scenario is they are paralyzed from their waist down plus one half of their upper body. They hav...
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Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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Children should have a balanced diet. They should only consume sugar, salt, and fat in equal quantit...
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Women are one of the most important segments of the adventure travel industry. Women make the vast m...
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The securities laws say you cannot make use for personal gain of confidential information you obtain...
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When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
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We have a right to life, not on it.
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But if they didn't have any soap and towels in the bathroom, I'd exit immediately.
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In America, when people dueled, they would use pistols. We didn't have fencing schools where gentlem...
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I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendousl...
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I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendousl...
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
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We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a vo...
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The government should make use of the laws we already have on the books (to stop pornography).
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I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain su...
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It smells terrible in here.'

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The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located
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That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
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Most people would rather eat inside a windowless room in which they have just defecated than eat ins...
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
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I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
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The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
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The titles they use mean absolutely nothing. We have a marketplace for financial advice in which pro...
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You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
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If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
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I never let schooling interfere with my education.
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed rig...
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There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one...
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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of ti...
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
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The lack of money is the root of all evil.
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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
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Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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All generalizations are false, including this one.
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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
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If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half.
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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...
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When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu...
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The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly...
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By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec...
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So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
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The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes...
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w...
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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff...
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Say the report is exaggerated.
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A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ...
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A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t...
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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st...
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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi...
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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to...
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We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ...
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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people...
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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find...
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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood...
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As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
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Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
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It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting...
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To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things tha...
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Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"
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Distance lends enchantment to the view
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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Chastity - you can carry it too far
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To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
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There is a great deal of human nature in people.
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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
MARK TWAIN
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
MARK TWAIN
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover th...
MARK TWAIN
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so,...
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to...
MARK TWAIN
I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treas...
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Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us...
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Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
MARK TWAIN
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
MARK TWAIN
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
MARK TWAIN
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not oblig...
MARK TWAIN
Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
MARK TWAIN
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
MARK TWAIN
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
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MARK TWAIN
When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
MARK TWAIN
Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the hum...
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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he...
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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were...
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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table ...
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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a te...
MARK TWAIN
In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
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Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
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The lack of money is the root of all evils.
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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
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Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures...
MARK TWAIN
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. ...
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Traini...
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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only m...
MARK TWAIN
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
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It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech...
MARK TWAIN
There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
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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 no...
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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
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A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
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A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversati...
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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expe...
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Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
MARK TWAIN
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part cowar...
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Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself
MARK TWAIN
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro...
MARK TWAIN
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
MARK TWAIN
It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
MARK TWAIN
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it ...
MARK TWAIN
I've never let my school interfere with my education.
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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in al...
MARK TWAIN
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal di...
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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going...
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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiment...
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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the ca...
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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the r...
MARK TWAIN
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a...
MARK TWAIN
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its...
MARK TWAIN
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
MARK TWAIN
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the reall...
MARK TWAIN
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
MARK TWAIN
′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
MARK TWAIN
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Trut...
MARK TWAIN
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
MARK TWAIN
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
MARK TWAIN
All right, then, I'll go to hell.
MARK TWAIN
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
MARK TWAIN
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
MARK TWAIN
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
MARK TWAIN
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it ...
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
MARK TWAIN
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
MARK TWAIN