Quote by Mark Twain
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. – Mark Twain

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain

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I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. – Mark Twain

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

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Rainbows
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So shines the setting sun on adverse skies, and paints a rainbow on the storm. – Isaac Watts

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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. – G.K. Chesterton

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In your so-called dreary life, all the rainbow colors are there — just close your eyes and dream them. Soon enough they will be real, if you believe in your own colors. – Terri Guillemets

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Riding on gardenias embracing rainbows… – Claudia Adrienne Grandi, 1974

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I never said half the crap people said I did. – Albert Einstein;)

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Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. – Aldous Leonard Huxley, Texts and Pretexts, 1932

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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because Id been up all night inventing the Camcorder. – Al Gore

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