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7190 quotesThe mind of the people is like mud, from which arise strange and beautiful things.
Masses
W. J. Turner
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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
Habit
Mark Twain
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
Wisdom
Mark Twain
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Knowledge
Mark Twain
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As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
Writers and Writing
Mark Twain
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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
Appearance
Mark Twain
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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
Knowledge
Mark Twain
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Adversity
Mark Twain
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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
Grammar
Mark Twain
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Deception
Mark Twain
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Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
Certainty
Mark Twain
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Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
Weather
Mark Twain
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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
Nations
Mark Twain
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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
Futility
Mark Twain
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Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.
Honesty
Mark Twain
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Trials
Mark Twain
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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Money
Mark Twain
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I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Evolution
Mark Twain
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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
Ignorance
Mark Twain
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If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.
Pilgrims
Mark Twain
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If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Memory
Mark Twain
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Truth
Mark Twain
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In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
Politicians and Politics
Mark Twain
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards.
Idiots
Mark Twain
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Honor
Mark Twain
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun