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“Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”
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“Why should I have to hide the fact that I don't believe there鈥檚 a supreme being? There鈥檚 no proof of it. There鈥檚 no harm in saying you鈥檙e an atheist. It doesn't mean you treat people any differently. I live by the Golden Rule to do unto others, as you'd want to be treated.
I just simply don't believe in religion, and I don鈥檛 believe necessarily that there鈥檚 a supreme being that watches over all of us. I follow the teachings of George Carlin. George said he worshipped the sun. He was a fellow atheist. I鈥檓 in good company 鈥� Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Charles Darwin. It鈥檚 not like I鈥檓 not with good company and intelligent people. There have been some good, intelligent atheists who have lived in the world.”
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I just simply don't believe in religion, and I don鈥檛 believe necessarily that there鈥檚 a supreme being that watches over all of us. I follow the teachings of George Carlin. George said he worshipped the sun. He was a fellow atheist. I鈥檓 in good company 鈥� Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Charles Darwin. It鈥檚 not like I鈥檓 not with good company and intelligent people. There have been some good, intelligent atheists who have lived in the world.”
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“We met a great many other interesting people, among them Lewis Carroll, author of the immortal "Alice"--but he was only interesting to look at, for he was the silliest and shyest full-grown man I have ever met except "Uncle Remus.”
― Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition
― Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

“I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking.”
― Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition
― Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

“I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; I was always tired.”
― Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition
― Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.”
― On the Decay of the Art of Lying
― On the Decay of the Art of Lying

“I know all about audiences, they believe everything you say, except when you are telling the truth.”
― Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition
― Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

“Warm summer sun, shine friendly here
Warm western wind, blow kindly here;
Green sod above, rest light, rest light,
Good-night, Annette!
Sweetheart, good-night!”
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Warm western wind, blow kindly here;
Green sod above, rest light, rest light,
Good-night, Annette!
Sweetheart, good-night!”
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“Hemingway is overrated,
Twain is even more lost at sea,
And all truths point to the mouth of a woman,
Where both her whispers and her screams,
Are born.
Pour another glass,
Beer, wine, whiskey,
I don't care,
So long as its wisdom is sharp,
And it tells lies instead of promises.”
― The Kaleidoscope Syndrome: An Anthology
Twain is even more lost at sea,
And all truths point to the mouth of a woman,
Where both her whispers and her screams,
Are born.
Pour another glass,
Beer, wine, whiskey,
I don't care,
So long as its wisdom is sharp,
And it tells lies instead of promises.”
― The Kaleidoscope Syndrome: An Anthology

“We saw also an autograph letter of Lucrezia Borgia, a lady for whom I have always entertained the highest respect, on account of her rare histrionic capabilities, her opulence in solid gold goblets made of gilded wood, her high distinction as an operatic screamer, and the facility with which she could order a sextuple funeral and get the corpses ready for it.”
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“Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat.
- Notebook, 1894”
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- Notebook, 1894”
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“Dear, dear, it only shows that there is nothing diviner about a king than there is about a tramp, after all. He is just a cheap and hollow artificiality when you don't know he is a king. But reveal his quality, and dear me it takes your very breath away to look at him. I reckon we are all fools. Born so, no doubt.”
― A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
― A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“We wished to go to the Ambrosian Library, and we did that also. We saw a manuscript of Virgil, with annotations in the handwriting of Petrarch, the gentleman who loved another man's Laura, and lavished upon her all through life a love which was a clear waste of the raw material. It was sound sentiment, but bad judgment. It brought both parties fame, and created a fountain of commiseration for them in sentimental breasts that is running yet. But who says a word in behalf of poor Mr. Laura? (I do not know his other name.) Who glorifies him? Who bedews him with tears? Who writes poetry about him? Nobody. How do you suppose he liked the state of things that has given the world so much pleasure? How did he enjoy having another man following his wife every where and making her name a familiar word in every garlic-exterminating mouth in Italy with his sonnets to her pre-empted eyebrows? They got fame and sympathy--he got neither. This is a peculiarly felicitous instance of what is called poetical justice. It is all very fine; but it does not chime with my notions of right. It is too one-sided--too ungenerous.”
― The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress
― The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress

“Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat.”
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“A thousand curses on you and those who spawned you! You've plagued me long enough, you stygian fiend! I don't know what sulfurous pit you've crawled out of, but I mean to return you to it! I'll send you on a voyage down the river Styx if it's the last thing I do!" Twain directed his attention back to the phone. "No, I wasn't talking to you, but most of what I said still applies.”
― William Bradshaw and Fool's Gold
― William Bradshaw and Fool's Gold

“廿賳 丕賱亘賷囟 賱丕 賷乇賷丿賵賳 廿賱丕 丕賱禺賷乇 毓賳丿賲丕 賷賳鬲卮賱賵賳 爻賲賰丕賸 亘卮乇賷丕賸 賲賳 丕賱賲丨賷胤 賵賷丨丕賵賱賵賳 鬲賳卮賷賮賴 賵鬲丿賮鬲賴 賵廿爻毓丕丿賴 賵廿乇丕丨鬲賴 賮賷 賯賳 丕賱丿噩丕噩 .”
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“No! You mean you're the late CHarlemagne; you must be six or seven hundred years old, at the very least."
"Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung these gray hairs and this premature balditude.”
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"Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung these gray hairs and this premature balditude.”
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“You mean you're the late Charlemagne; you must be six or seven hundred years old, at the very least."
"Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung these gray hairs and this premature balditude.”
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"Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung these gray hairs and this premature balditude.”
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“Twain please!" Peck blubbered. "It was never personal. It was just business!"
"Oh Peck, do you think I'm mad at you? I"m a lawyer. I don't get mad. I don't get even." Twain gave him a wicked smile. " I sue people.”
― William Bradshaw and Fool's Gold
"Oh Peck, do you think I'm mad at you? I"m a lawyer. I don't get mad. I don't get even." Twain gave him a wicked smile. " I sue people.”
― William Bradshaw and Fool's Gold

“Nichts lieben die Deutschen so von ganzem Herzen wie die Oper. Sie werden durch Gewohnheit und Erziehung dahin geleitet. Auch wir Amerikaner k枚nnen es ohne Zweifel eines Tages noch zu solcher Liebe bringen. Bis jetzt findet aber vielleicht unter f眉nfzig Besuchern der Oper einer wirklich Gefallen daran; von den 眉brigen neunundvierzig gehen viele, glaube ich, hin, weil sie sich daran gew枚hnen m枚chten, und die andern, um mit Sachkenntnis davon reden zu k枚nnen. Letztere summen gew枚hnlich die Melodien vor sich hin, w盲hrend sie auf der B眉hne gesungen werden, um ihren Nachbarn zu zeigen, da脽 sie nicht zum erstenmal in der Oper sind. Sie verdienten daf眉r geh盲ngt zu werden.”
― 惭别颈蝉迟别谤别谤锄盲丑濒耻苍驳别苍
― 惭别颈蝉迟别谤别谤锄盲丑濒耻苍驳别苍

“THE TWAIN DOTH MEET
East and West are relative to their shared starting point
Kamil Ali”
― The Initiates
East and West are relative to their shared starting point
Kamil Ali”
― The Initiates
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