Mark Twain Quotes About Time
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It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.
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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
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A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.
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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.
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The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
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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 first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.
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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
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How slow and still the time did drag along.
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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.
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It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
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Geological time is not money.
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But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.
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More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.
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I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.
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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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