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Emotions and Feelings
Mark Twain
The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.
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Mark Twain
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
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Mark Twain
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.
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Mark Twain
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
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Mark Twain
Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
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Mark Twain
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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Mark Twain
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.
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Mark Twain
At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.
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Mark Twain
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
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Mark Twain
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
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