Friday, April 21, 2006

Great Quotes - Mark Twain

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
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Don't let schooling interfere with your education."
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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
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Golf is a good walk spoiled."
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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places."
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It is easier to stay out than get out."
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul."
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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."
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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins."
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances."
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Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat."
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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again."
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."
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