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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Mark Twain
Justice, Pleasure, Ecstasy
The Innocents Abroad ch. 26 (1869)

These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

Mark Twain
Consumerism, Overconsumption, Supreme
Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.711, Library of America

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

Mark Twain
Book, Classic, Praise

Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

Mark Twain
Ideas, Interesting, Curious
Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.59, Createspace Independent Pub

History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

Mark Twain
Rhyme, Repeats

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

Mark Twain
Age, Gone, Charity
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4158, Delphi Classics

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

Mark Twain
Cities, San Francisco, Bay Area
Mark Twain, Bernard Taper (1963). “Mark Twain's San Francisco”, p.12, Heyday

Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

Mark Twain
Girl, Book, Charming
Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.93, Courier Corporation

We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.

Mark Twain
Clothes, Reason
Mark Twain (1809). “The Writings of Mark Twain: Following the equator; a journey around the world”, p.21

When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

Mark Twain
Eight, Weather, Ideas
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.513, Courier Corporation

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

Mark Twain
Personality, Looks, Blame

It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

Mark Twain
Men, Thinking, Knows

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

Mark Twain
Men, Speaks Out, Enough
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.319, Courier Corporation

When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.

Mark Twain
Fire, Order, Two
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.507, Courier Corporation

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Mark Twain
Funny, Wise, Money
Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) ch. 15

Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

Mark Twain
Hurt, Sick, Sometimes
Mark Twain “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Lulu.com

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

Mark Twain
Funny, Senior, Laughter
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.389, Courier Corporation

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

Mark Twain
Honesty, Men, Honest
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

Mark Twain
Life, Wisdom Experience, Knowledge Experience
Following the Equator ch. 11, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

Mark Twain
Optimistic, Play, Backyards
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.340, Courier Corporation

In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

Mark Twain
Sex, Young, Turnips

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

Mark Twain
Real, Two, Giving

Tough times teach trust.

Mark Twain
Tough Times, Tough, Teach

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

Mark Twain
Heart, Men, Privacy
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.404, Courier Corporation

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

Mark Twain
Girl, Book, Hero
Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

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