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| Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information. |
Mark Twain |
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| Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898 |
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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| Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. |
Mark Twain |
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| An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before. |
Mark Twain |
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| All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908 |
Mark Twain |
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| Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. |
Mark Twain |
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| It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others--and less trouble. - speech, 1906 |
Mark Twain |
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| Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. |
Mark Twain |
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| Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education. |
Mark Twain |
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| Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. |
Mark Twain |
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| It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. |
Mark Twain |
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| Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. |
Mark Twain |
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| The billiard table is better than the doctor. |
Mark Twain |
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| A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. |
Mark Twain |
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| Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. |
Mark Twain |
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| Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. |
Mark Twain |
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| Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. |
Mark Twain |
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| A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. |
Mark Twain |
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| Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. |
Mark Twain |
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| Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place. |
Mark Twain |
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| Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. |
Mark Twain |
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| Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. |
Mark Twain |
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| I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. |
Mark Twain |
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| In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language. |
Mark Twain |
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| I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. |
Mark Twain |
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| I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. |
Mark Twain |
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| In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. |
Mark Twain |
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| It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. |
Mark Twain |
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| It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. |
Mark Twain |
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| Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. |
Mark Twain |
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| It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. |
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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| It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. |
Mark Twain |
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| Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. |
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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| Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. |
Mark Twain |
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| Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. |
Mark Twain |
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| Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. |
Mark Twain |
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| There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. |
Mark Twain |
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| The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. |
Mark Twain |
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| There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. |
Mark Twain |
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| The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. |
Mark Twain |
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| Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. |
Mark Twain |
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| Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. |
Mark Twain |
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| When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one. |
Mark Twain |
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| I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. |
Mark Twain |
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| The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. |
Mark Twain |
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| He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. |
Mark Twain |
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| When in doubt, tell the truth. |
Mark Twain |
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| When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. |
Mark Twain |
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| A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. |
Mark Twain |
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| There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. |
Mark Twain |
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| Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. |
Mark Twain |
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| The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. |
Mark Twain |
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| The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession. |
Mark Twain |
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| We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. |
Mark Twain |
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| Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. |
Mark Twain |
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| When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. |
Mark Twain |
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| The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. |
Mark Twain |
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| Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. |
Mark Twain |
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| Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. |
Mark Twain |
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| How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it. |
Mark Twain |
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| It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. |
Mark Twain |
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| An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. |
Mark Twain |
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| Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. |
Mark Twain |
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| Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. |
Mark Twain |
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| I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' |
Igor Stravinsky |
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| My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit. |
Igor Stravinsky |
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| My music is best understood by children and animals. |
Igor Stravinsky |
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| I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. |
Igor Stravinsky |
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| Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| The best things in life are nearest Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| There is so much good in the worst of us, an so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| The cruelest lies are often told in silence. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| A friend is a gift you give yourself. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children who has filled his niche and accomplished his task who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable and no man is useless while he has a friend. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| You cannot run away from a weakness you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. |
Robert Louis Stephenson |
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| It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. |
Aristotle |
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| The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. |
Aristotle |
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| ...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it... |
Aristotle |
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| He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. |
Aristotle |
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