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After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

Mark Twain
Sorry, Fall, Years
Mark Twain (2015). “The Diaries of Adam and Eve”, p.27, Xist Publishing

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

Mark Twain
Years, Insanity, Form
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.811, Jazzybee Verlag

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Years, Law
Mark Twain (1929). “Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: Mark Twain's speeches”

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

Mark Twain
Two, Forever, Literature
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 31 (1884)

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

Mark Twain
Marriage, Girl, Advice

I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

Mark Twain
Attitude, Magic, Noble
Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.46, Mark Twain

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

Mark Twain
Animal, Men, Favors

The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths to destroy it.

Mark Twain
Grateful, School, Doctors

Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

Mark Twain
Couple, Whales, Decision

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

Mark Twain
German Language, Years, Awful
Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3507, GENERAL PRESS

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

Mark Twain
Jobs, Journalist, Reporters

Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

Mark Twain
Race, Doe, Want
Notebook #42,

Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

Mark Twain
Truth, Use, Truth Is

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

Mark Twain
Stars, Science, Mystery
Mark Twain (2015). “The Diaries of Adam and Eve”, p.3, Xist Publishing

That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.

Mark Twain
Funny, Writing, Humor

Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

Mark Twain
Running, Fun, Advice

Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

Mark Twain
Dog, Math, Names
Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.224, Mark Twain

When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

Mark Twain
Men, Miles, Obligation
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.164, Courier Corporation

For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race - and of ours - sexual intercourse!It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!

Mark Twain
Heart, Race, Water
"Letters from the Earth" (1940)

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain
Illness, Grew, Exaggeration

If one is honest there is no need to remember.

Mark Twain
Integrity, Needs, Honest

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

Mark Twain
Vanity, Giving, Advice
Mark Twain (1992). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.25, Courier Corporation

I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.

Mark Twain
Book, Cat, Tables

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

Mark Twain
Trouble, Maxims
Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.42, eKitap Projesi

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

Mark Twain
Fool
Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.4, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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