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“It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.”

“What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”

Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.”

“Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.”

Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.”

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

“I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.”

“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”

“One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until
after considerable acquaintance with her.”

“Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.”

“If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.”

“Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.”

“I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.”

“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.”

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.”

"Taming the Bicycle" (1917)

“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.”

“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.”

“Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.”

“All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being… he can't be any worse.”

“It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve”

Source: The Diary of Adam and Eve