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Pay Quotes by Mark Twain
- Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
- We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.
- The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets…
- Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.…
- That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then…
- You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.
- We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
- Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
- There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They…
- Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood…
- If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
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- You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. — Isaac Asimov
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or… — Saint Augustine
- What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the… — Paul Auster