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Love Quotes by Mark Twain

158 Love quotes by Mark Twain

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Mark Twain encourages love that feels like singing alone in a quiet room, dancing without an audience, and living as if heaven were near. He says love is a reward that beats praise, and that you should chase it with your heart, not just clever plans. The quotes share joy, heartfelt pursuit, and precious affection.

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The funniest things are the forbidden.

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Never do wrong when people are looking.

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All gods are better than their reputation.

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The secret of making progress is to get started.

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There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

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Make your vacation your vocation.

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“There ain't no harm in a hound, nohow.”

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Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

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I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.

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I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

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...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

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Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

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If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

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An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

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Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

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I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

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It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ...…

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Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life.…

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They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

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What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

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One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

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You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to…

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Honesty is the best and the most expensive gift you can give to someone. It brings trust. It makes you trustworthy, which…

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“Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his . His was a great…

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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or…

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We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability…

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“Kill the women? No – nobody ever saw anything in the books like that. You fetch them to the cave, and you’re…

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Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is…

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Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At…

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“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or…

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“I've just come to my room, Livy darling, I guess this was the memorable night of my life. By George, I never…

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“A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every…

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“The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching—all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a…

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two…

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A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant…

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“O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them…

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I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

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We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

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Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…

It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.

“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…

The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…

“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either…

If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…

You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.