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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 59

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I never write metropolis for seven cents when I can write city and get paid the same.

I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

Writing, Cities, Seven

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

Men, Independence, India

On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

Joy, Consciousness

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

Writing, Style, Bricks

Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Wise, Lying, Men

Mark Twain, Susan K. Harris (1994). “Historical Romances: The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc”, p.115, Library of America

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

Inspiration, Able, Stranger

My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it, as I am, every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination, maybe of indolence, shifts the cargo.

Men, Sea, People

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Keeping Promises, World, Body

Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

Lucky, Young, Die Young

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Education, Inspirational Life, Fighting

Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1923). “The Writings of Mark Twain”

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

Animal, Humanity, Poor

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.187, Courier Corporation

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

Prejudice, Investing, Our Thoughts

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

Inspiration, Sleep, Smoke

I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

Hate, Perfectly Good, Editors

It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

Funny, Humorous, Ass

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1429, GENERAL PRESS

The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

Humorous, Beer, House

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3472, Delphi Classics

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Heart, Long, Shapes

Mark Twain (2008). “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ILLUSTRATED. : Illustrated by True Williams (Mobi Classics)”, p.82, MobileReference

The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Death, Rich, Pity

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.135, Courier Corporation

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

Death, Lovely

Janet Smith, Mark Twain (1972). “Mark Twain on man and beast”, Lawrence Hill Books

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

God, Romance, Sacred

Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1971). “Mark Twain's notebook”, Scholarly Pr

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

Good Luck, Luck, Return

Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

Religious, Atheist, Religion

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

Food, Wine, Men

Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

Feet, Long, Yards

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ch. 2 (1876)

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Truth, Way, Strict

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5702, Delphi Classics

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