Mark Twain

(357 votes)   Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(322 votes)   It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(301 votes)   There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(296 votes)   There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(291 votes)   The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

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1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(277 votes)   Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it

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(276 votes)   On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(271 votes)   There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(256 votes)   A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(233 votes)   October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(230 votes)   The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(230 votes)   Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts

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(223 votes)   The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

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1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(223 votes)   There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

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(222 votes)   All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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