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Mark Twain
By his father...
By his father he is English, by his mother he is American -- to my mind the blend which makes the perfect...
Conscience takes up...
Conscience takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides.
Source:...
God puts something...
God puts something good and something lovable in every man His hands create.
Do something every...
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty...
Eternal rest sounds...
Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your...
Cauliflower is nothing...
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Source: Pudd'nhead...
Everyone is a...
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anyone.
Source:...
Half of the...
Half of the results of a good intention are evil, half the results of an evil intention are...
Eat what you...
Eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Source:
-- Mark Twain,...
Fame is a...
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Don't go around...
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here...
Faith is believing...
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
Source: In
Hardly a man...
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his...
Few sinners have...
Few sinners have been saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Source:...
Forgiveness is the...
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Education does not...
Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not...
Familiarity breeds contempt....
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so...
History is strewn...
History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is...
Few things are...
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Source:...
Grief can take...
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it...