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Mark Twain Inspirational Quotes (1366)

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We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.
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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.
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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.
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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.
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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
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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.
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An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.
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The heart is the real fountain of youth.
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You want to be very careful about lying otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.
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In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.
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[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.
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You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.
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It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.
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...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'
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Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.
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I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.
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I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
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