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HeavenlyTwain

  1. Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.
  2. I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me.
  3. We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.
  4. If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.
  5. Our heroes are the men who do things which we recognize with regret and sometimes with a secret shame that we cannot do.
  6. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
  7. We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.
  8. It has never been my way to bother much about things which you can't cure.
  9. The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
  10. A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection.
  11. Joys that come to us after the capacity for enjoyment is dead are but an affront.
  12. It took 140 years to solve this little mystery- I did not write "Poor Little Stephen Girard" twainquotes.com/StephenGirard.…
  13. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them.
  14. @mensasquirrel And that is what was intended.
  15. RT @mensasquirrel: .@HeavenlyTwain I'm talking about my originality of spirit. < I'll give you that. You're no @commonsquirrel
  16. What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
  17. @mensasquirrel: .@HeavenlyTwain "All ideas are second-hand?" I beg to differ. I feel pretty original, myself. < Google "Mensa"
  18. That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.
  19. Experience is an author's most valuable asset.