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No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise (Mark Twain Quotes)
Now, isn’t imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders (Mark Twain Quotes)
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology (Mark Twain Quotes)
There ain’t no way to find out why a snorer can’t hear himself snore (Mark Twain Quotes)
I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world (Mark Twain Quotes)
Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point (Mark Twain Quotes)
I wasn’t worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars (Mark Twain Quotes)
The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man’s every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other (Mark Twain Quotes)
My mind changes often... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it, as I am, every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination, maybe of indolence, shifts the cargo (Mark Twain Quotes)
When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause (Mark Twain Quotes)
We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half (Mark Twain Quotes)
Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody (Mark Twain Quotes)
My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done (Mark Twain Quotes)
I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can’t be made to do it in any possible way (Mark Twain Quotes)
An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel (Mark Twain Quotes)
When the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity (Mark Twain Quotes)
When you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are. Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least (Mark Twain Quotes)
I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time (Mark Twain Quotes)
A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella and takes it away as soon as it starts raining (Mark Twain Quotes)
Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn (Mark Twain Quotes)
The devil’s aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs (Mark Twain Quotes)
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home (Mark Twain Quotes)
A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can’t travel any way but sideways and backways (Mark Twain Quotes)
A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong (Mark Twain Quotes)
When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence (Mark Twain Quotes)
Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours (Mark Twain Quotes)
Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness (Mark Twain Quotes)
The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants (Mark Twain Quotes)
Adam did not want the apple for the apple’s sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden (Mark Twain Quotes)
The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don’t need it (Mark Twain Quotes)