Mark Twain Quotes About Grieving
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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.
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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.
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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.
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I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.
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