There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.


Mark Twain

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Mark Twain: A Life
RON POWERS
There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.
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There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows...
BERNARD MALAMUD
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows-...
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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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There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.
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There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or win...
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Every time we dig underground we find some hidden marvel.
WALTER VELTRONI
There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
LANCE ARMSTRONG
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American w...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must ...
LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI
Mind is still a hidden treasure to explore to benefit. Go for its mining.
ANUJ SOMANY
You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was fo...
HAL HOLBROOK
There comes a time in every man's life when courage is no longer defined by the chances he takes, bu...
DEBORAH SIMPSON
Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
VAL KILMER
Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,
BILL BRADLEY
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn."
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
When you find that you are on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
STEVE J. LEATHERWOOD
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
P. D. JAMES
I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dis...
BURN GORMAN
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
BETTE DAVIS
There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.
SARAH DESSEN
Colin comes in to solve a goalkeeping problem as Neil Bennett has decided to go back south. My assis...
DICK CAMPBELL
Mark Twain.
FRIENDS
Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd g...
JOHN GRISHAM
We found out he will fight when it comes down to the finish. Today he had to dig down a little and h...
BILL MOTT
Dorcas, for the last twenty or thirty years I’ve been a worthless, useless, no-good parasite.” S...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON
There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.
CASEY STENGEL
There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
CASEY STENGEL
Let the man cry, for there might be hidden treasure in his tears.
YAMIN RASHEED
Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER
There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his ...
DAVE BARRY
We're going to treasure every evening, have a good time, and go out on a high note.
DOUG HALL
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Color comes to life when you add a little love.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
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LEE WARREN
Oh my word, man. It just comes to life for you as a parent. My goodness, no wonder Christmas has hun...
DANA WILLIAMS
You may kill a fire. And everything you know falls to dust and ash. Yet the remarkable treasure in t...
AKILNATHAN LOGESWARAN
This comes at a real bad time. We're already battling drought and raging wildfires and this thing co...
WILL SKAGGS
He danced across my heart like a pirate,
Constantly discovering my secrets,
Turning over e...
TANZY SAYADI
He wants us to search for Him as for hidden treasure, leaving no stone unturned.
DANA CANDLER
There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the b...
SRI CHINMOY
Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
KINKY FRIEDMAN
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues...
ULYSSES S. GRANT
There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhe...
TED SIMON
Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS
Mark Twain cannot be defined.
HAL HOLBROOK
It was a shame, disgrace and embarrassment to have his wheelchair hidden in this memorial when in fa...
ALAN REICH
Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
KINKY FRIEDMAN
He has a great mind when it comes to putting together an offense and putting his talent in the right...
ANTWAAN RANDLE EL
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a ...
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No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of ...
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Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
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We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Gosh, it's awful. This comes at a real bad time. We're already battling drought and raging wildfires...
WILL SKAGGS
Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you o...
CHANAKYA
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
JACKSON BROWNE
There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
CASEY STENGEL
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' has been targeted by censors for promoting N...
JUDY BLUME
Life has been compared with a battle and rightly so, as each day comes up with a new set of challeng...
SAM VEDA
[March 25 -] Songs and Stories for Everybody ... the Mark Twain of contemporary kids' music.
BILL HARLEY
If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.
PETER FALK
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you...
MARK TWAIN
I read from Mark Twain's lips one or two of his good stories. He has his own way of thinking, saying...
HELEN KELLER
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the wh...
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For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to h...
IVAN PANIN
There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage f...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll li...
DICK VAN DYKE
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
MOHANDAS GANDHI
Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.
SAVI SHARMA
There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it�...
LANCE ARMSTRONG
There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it'...
LANCE ARMSTRONG
To paraphrase Mark Twain, our demise is greatly exaggerated.
CHRIS DONLAY
Maybe it was only a second of your time, but you need to treasure life, every second.
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There's no time for boys in my life right now.
KARLIE KLOSS
He has nothing left to prove. At the same time, he still has the desire and ability. Although you mi...
AARON RODGERS
The GPS will get visitors within a few feet of the hidden treasure, but from there they have to figu...
HERB HANDLY
There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.
KATARINA WITT
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DICK VAN DYKE
Life is more than love and pleasure,
I came to dig for treasure.
If you want to play, you ...
STEPHEN KING
He's a bit of a trash talker. But it's just a reflection of his desire to win. He comes in here ever...
BOB MARINAK
Certainly, you're not going to able to go and pull a Mark Mulder out of your hat somewhere,
BILLY BEANE
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition ...
NHAT HANH
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition ...
THICH NHAT HANH
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition ...
THICH NHAT HANH
Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.
BOB NEWHART
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk “his life, his fo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
NAPOLéON BONAPARTE
John has changed. He is more grown up. He is a great father, and has more compassion when it comes t...
JAMIE COLTON
These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
The captain of this sailing vessel has requested a private audience with you in his quarters. It see...
OLIVIA PARKER
Yes, Boss?'
Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
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ROMAN COPPOLA

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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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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
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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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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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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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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 human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba...
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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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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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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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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
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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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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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Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in it...
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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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Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
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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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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.
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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover th...
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
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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.
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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
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I do not like work even when someone else does it.
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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
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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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
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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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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...
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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only m...
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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...
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There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
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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...
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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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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, b...
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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.
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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
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro...
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Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
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It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a...
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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its...
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the reall...
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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
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′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
MARK TWAIN
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.
MARK TWAIN
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 ...
MARK TWAIN
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
MARK TWAIN
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAIN
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