| 326 Famous Quotes by Mark Twain
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“We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves”
Benevolence Quotes |
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“Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.”
Books Quotes |
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“In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?”
Boston Quotes |
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“There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure”
Boys Quotes |
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“Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied”
Caring Quotes |
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“If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.”
Cats Quotes |
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“The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.”
Cats Quotes |
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“I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.”
Challenge Quotes |
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“The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.”
Chicago Quotes |
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“Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be”
Circumstances Quotes |
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“Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it”
Citizenship Quotes |
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“Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.”
Climate Quotes |
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“I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception”
Compliments Quotes |
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“The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.”
Consequences Quotes |
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“Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals”
Conservatism Quotes |
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“Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.”
Country Quotes |
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”
Courage Quotes |
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“It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare”
Courage Quotes |
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“If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it”
Criticism Quotes |
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“Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.”
Custom Quotes |
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“Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful”
Diligence Quotes |
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“The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten”
Diplomacy Quotes |
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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”
Diplomacy Quotes |
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“The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice”
Discrimination Quotes |
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“In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.”
Dogs Quotes |
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Mark Twain Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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