Mark Twain Quotes About Inspiration
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
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As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'
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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.
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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
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I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.
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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.
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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
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All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish
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I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.
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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
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It is easier to stay out than get out.
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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
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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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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.
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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.
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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
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Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
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