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Always do right; this will gra...

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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It's good sportsmanship to not...

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

Let me make the superstitions ...

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

What is the difference between...

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

To be good is noble, but to te...

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

It is easier to stay out than ...

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

There is nothing training cann...

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.. -Mark Twain.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

In Paris they simply stared wh...

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

Never tell the truth to people...

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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Most writers regard truth as t...

Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

We had the sky up there, and w...

We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they were made or just happened.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

There are no people who are qu...

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

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If you don't like the weather ...

If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

I do not like work even when s...

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

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We ought never to do wrong whe...

We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

I think I can say, and say wit...

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

She kept up her compliments, a...

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

We wish to learn all the curio...

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can 'show off' and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

Schoolboy days are no happier ...

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed Ђ' because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

Perhaps no poet is a conscious...

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

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