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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 66

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If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

Moderation, Discrete, Ifs

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

Inspirational, Determination, Play

Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.15, Createspace Independent Pub

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Country, Party, Men

Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.238, 1st World Publishing

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

People, Joy, Sorrow

Mark Twain “Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books”, Lulu.com

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

Writing, Editors, Austria

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7777, Delphi Classics

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

Thinking, Utterance, Handsome

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.918, Jazzybee Verlag

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

Moral, Teach

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.294, Courier Corporation

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

Travel, Pain, Care

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.131, Courier Corporation

To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

Nature, Turns, Seasons

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4864, Delphi Classics

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

Science, Men, Statistics

Mark Twain (1984). “Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions”, Harpercollins

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

Museums, Earth, Christianity

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.460, Courier Corporation

The average man don't like trouble and danger.

Men, Average, Trouble

Huckleberry Finn XXII

None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

God, Good God

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

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. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

Inspirational Life, May, Fifteen

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

Inspirational Life, Opportunity, Light

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Inspirational Life, Father, Personal Opinions

Attributed in Reader's Digest, Sept. 1937. The attribution to Twain is obviously spurious because Twain's father died when the future writer was eleven years old.

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

Honesty, Suffering, Poison

Mark Twain (1990). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868”, p.357, Univ of California Press

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Needs, Helping, Checks

I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict was worthless. It might underrate a work of high merit and lose it to the world, or it might overrate a trashy production and so open the way for its infliction upon the world. I said that the great public was the only tribunal competent to sit in judgment upon a literary effort, and therefore it must be best to lay it before that tribunal in the outset, since in the end it must stand or fall by that mighty court's decision any way.

Girl, Fall, Effort

Mark Twain “Carnival of Crime in Ct”, Library of Alexandria

Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

Thinking, Cities, People

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5704, Delphi Classics

The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

Lying, Support, Bricks

Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.101, Book Tree

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

Class, Tyrants, Mind

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ch. 25 (1889)

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

Death, Grateful, Grief

Autobiography ch. 49 (1959)

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

Memories, Done, Lines

Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.70, 谷月社

The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.

Grief, Sadness, Men

Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings”, p.349, Penguin

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