Mark Twain quotes on age

I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)

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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

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But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

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Among the three or four million cradles now rocking in the land are some which this nation would preserve for ages as sacred things, if we could know which ones they are.

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