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In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

Mark Twain
Night, Race, Age
Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.46, Univ of Wisconsin Press

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

Mark Twain
Heart, Men, Race
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9238, Delphi Classics

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

Mark Twain
Men, Color, Lines

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

Mark Twain
Education, Work, Advice
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.297, Courier Corporation

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Mark Twain
Memories, Giving, Tongue

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

Mark Twain
Wisdom, Inspiration, Men
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

Mark Twain
Girl, Boys, Mind

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

Mark Twain
Art, Attitude, Expression
Mark Twain (1876). “Mississippi Writings”, p.488, Library of America

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Motivational, Work

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

Mark Twain
Children, Charity, Littles
Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3587, GENERAL PRESS

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

Mark Twain
Men, Together, Heirs
Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.12, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

Mark Twain
Horse, Women, Ambition

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Mark Twain
Work
Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.91, St. Martin's Press

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

Mark Twain
Men, Imagination, Figments

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

Mark Twain
Thinking, People, Admire

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

Mark Twain
Believe, Men, Race

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

Mark Twain
Beautiful, Children, Growing Up

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

Mark Twain
Power, Self, Appreciate

As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions of all the gods but it has never suspected it once. There is nothing prettier than its naive and complacent appreciation of itself. It comes out frankly and proclaims without bashfulness or any sign of a blush that it is the noblest work of God. It has had a billion opportunities to know better, but all signs fail with this ass. I could say harsh things about it but I cannot bring myself to do it-it is like hitting a child.

Mark Twain
Appreciation, Children, Winning
Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1987). “The outrageous Mark Twain: some lesser-known but extraordinary works : with "Reflections on religion" now in book form for the first time”, Doubleday Books

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

Mark Twain
Race, Humans, Ought
Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.29, Courier Corporation

When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

Mark Twain
Nice, Writing, Want

Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

Mark Twain
Sleep, People, Going To Sleep

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

Mark Twain
Lasts, Moral, Manners
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.281, Courier Corporation

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

Mark Twain
Real, Men, Madness
Mark Twain (1992). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.116, Courier Corporation

There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

Mark Twain
Born, Ifs
Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.61, Createspace Independent Pub

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