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When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Mark Twain
Memories, Reality, Thinking

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

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Zero, Hard Work, Men
Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.280, Xist Publishing

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

Mark Twain
Love, Marriage, Dream

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879

Mark Twain
Baby, Real, Differences
Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2171, GENERAL PRESS

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

Mark Twain
Lying, Practice
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.237, Courier Corporation

There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

Mark Twain
Waiting, Purpose, Strange
Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.189, Univ of California Press

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

Mark Twain
Character, Men, Trying
Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.48, BIG BYTE BOOKS

The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

Mark Twain
Loyalty, Business Success, Matter
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7367, Delphi Classics

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes to know with certainty that a particular thing is "true", will actually be the very thing that keeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.

Mark Twain
Inspirational Life, Eye, Men

Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.

Mark Twain
Cutting, Thinking, Long Ago

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

Mark Twain
Heart, Hands, Noble

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

Mark Twain
Sleep, Men, Giving

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

Mark Twain
Life, Grief, Struggle

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Mark Twain
Funny, Life, God
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

Mark Twain
Summer, Successful, Vacation

Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

Mark Twain
Gratitude, Two, Gone
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.482, Courier Corporation

The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one.

Mark Twain
Pain, Animal, Men
The Damned Human Race

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.

Mark Twain
Character, Years, Atheism

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

Mark Twain
Happiness, Impossible, Sanity
Mark Twain (1992). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.116, Courier Corporation

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

Mark Twain
Home, America, Political

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Mark Twain
Food, New Orleans, Criminals

There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.

Mark Twain
Liars, Two, Nervous

I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

Mark Twain
Happiness, Happy, God
Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.182, Chartwell

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

Mark Twain
Law, Two, Watches

[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.

Mark Twain
House, Speak, Unchristian
Mark Twain (1992). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3: 1869”, p.471, Univ of California Press

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