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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely at home in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of being, then you can

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

Mark Twain
Inspirational Life, Home, Men

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

Mark Twain
Art, Inspiration, Home

When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.

Mark Twain
Dog, Home, Humor

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

Mark Twain
Time, Home, Learning

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

Mark Twain
Home, House, May

He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Mark Twain
Inspirational Life, Cat, Home

It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.

Mark Twain
Home, Names, California
Mark Twain (2017). “Mark Twain, the Globetrotter: Complete Travel Books, Memoirs & Anecdotes (Illustrated Edition): A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Old Times on the Mississippi, Life on the Mississippi, Following the Equator & Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, With Author’s Biography”, p.999, e-artnow

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

Mark Twain
Funny, Home, Humor
Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 1 (1894)

After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

Mark Twain
Dream, Coffee, Home
Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.218, 谷月社

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

Mark Twain
Home, America, Political

A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.

Mark Twain
Love, Goodbye, Home
Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.26, Univ of Wisconsin Press

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

Mark Twain
Funny, Home, Gambling

When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!

Mark Twain
Home, Piano, Want
Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales and Sketches 1864-1869”, p.235, Univ of California Press

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Mark Twain
Home, Cat, Tails
Mark Twain (1980). “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, Detective”, p.316, Univ of California Press

Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

Mark Twain
Home, Civilization, Two
Mark Twain (1970). “King Leopold's Soliloquy”, p.79, LeftWord Books

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

Mark Twain
Home, Lakes, Sea
Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2339, GENERAL PRESS

I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

Mark Twain
Character, Home, Two

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.

Mark Twain
War, Home, Fighting
Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.146, Penguin

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

Mark Twain
Home, Tyrants, Apathy

A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.

Mark Twain
Children, Home, Boys
Mark Twain (2012). “Adventures of Tom Sawyer Companion”, p.124, BookCaps Study Guides

...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

Mark Twain
Home, Cat, Tails

The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.

Mark Twain
Home, Blessing, People
Mark Twain (1872). “Roughing It”, p.570, Buccaneer Books

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