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I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

Mark Twain
Fifteen, Might, Cigar

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

Mark Twain
Mind, Now And Then

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

Mark Twain
May, Rhyme, Repeats

There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

Mark Twain
Book, Writing, Rotten

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

Mark Twain
Pursuit Of Happiness, Important, Just Be Happy

Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

Mark Twain
Sweat, Worry, Wish
Mark Twain (2012). “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, p.182, Courier Corporation

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

Mark Twain
People, Paper, Rich
Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.314, Univ of California Press

What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

Mark Twain
Country, Lying, May
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.381, Courier Corporation

Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

Mark Twain
Suicide, Balloons, Observation
Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”, Library of America

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

Mark Twain
Railroads, Benefits, Half
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.51, Courier Corporation

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

Mark Twain
Regret, Rome, Firsts
Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 17, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

First catch your Boer, then kick him.

Mark Twain
Boers, Firsts, Kicks
Mark Twain (2014). “Following the Equator: (With Original Illustrations)”, p.385, Simon and Schuster

If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

Mark Twain
Horse, Should, Ifs

There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

Mark Twain
Book, Fire, Law
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.25, Courier Corporation

Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had been taken in the first place, the world would have been made right, and this ceaseless improving and repairing would not be necessary now. But if you hurry a world or a house, you are nearly sure to find out by and by that you have left out a towhead, or a broom-closet, or some other little convenience, here and there, which has got to be supplied, no matter how much expense or vexation it may cost.

Mark Twain
Taken, Rushing, House
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.6231, Delphi Classics

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

Mark Twain
Believe, Average, Incredibles
Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.136, Univ of California Press

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Mark Twain
Inspiration, Commitment, Broken
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.383, Courier Corporation

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Mark Twain
Art, Philosophy, Animal
Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.291, Createspace Independent Pub

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

Mark Twain
Inspiration, Use, Educated
Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.21, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Mark Twain
Education, Running, Teaching
A Curious Dream "Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation" (1872)

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Mark Twain
Inspiration, Risk, Lines
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5388, Delphi Classics

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

Mark Twain
Angel, Men, Present Time

Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

Mark Twain
Work, Two, World

I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

Mark Twain
Dance, Party, Butterfly

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

Mark Twain
Dance, Dancing, Joy
Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.790, GENERAL PRESS

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