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Twain, Mark
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Abstinence: There are people who strictly…
Advertising: Many a small thing has been made large by the…
Americans: We Americans worship the almighty dollar!…
Anger: When angry, count four; when…
Banks and Bankers: A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella …
Baseball: And so I drink long life to the boys who plowed a…
Baseball: Baseball is the very symbol, the outward…
California: All scenery in California requires distance…
Capitalism: That's right. 'Tain't yours, and…
Chicago: That astonishing Chicago—a city where they…
Cities: In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In…
Civil Rights: It is by the goodness…
Civilization: But I reckon I got to light out for the…
Classics: Something that everybody wants to…
Conscience: That's always the way; it don't make no…
Cowardice: There are several good protections against…
Desire: Adam was but human—this explains…
Doctors: He has been a doctor a year now and has had…
Doctors: Surgeons and anatomists see no…
Education: I have never let my…
Education: Soap and education are not…
Food: Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage…
France: France has neither winter nor summer nor…
Friends: It takes your enemy and…
Germany: Where and how did we get the idea that the…
God: The noblest work of God?…
Golf: Golf is a good walk…
Heaven: That's the main charm of heaven—there's all…
Human Condition: If the Eiffel Tower were now representing…
Human Condition: Man is a museum of…
Human Nature: Man is the only animal…
Ideas: Crank—a man with a new idea until it succeeds.…
Indecision: I must have a prodigious…
Jane Austen: Jane Austen's books, too, are…
Language: I can understand German as well as the maniac…
Language: My philological studies have satisfied me that a…
Language: Whenever the literary German dives into a…
Life and Death: All say, "How hard it…
Life: When we remember that we…
Madness: The way it is now,…
Manners: Good breeding consists in concealing…
Mark Twain: Mark Twain and I are…
Mark Twain: The average American loves his…
Morality: Morals are an acquirement—like music,…
Obituaries: The report of my death…
Parents: When I was a boy of 14 my father was so…
Prayer: You can't pray a lie—I found that out.
Procreation: Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
Pronunciation: They spell it Vinci and…
Racism: It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself…
Radicalism: The radical invents the views.…
Repartee: Scarce, sir. Mighty scarce.
Respect: When people do not respect…
Right: Always do right. This will…
Science: An oyster has hardly any more reasoning…
Shame: It was enough to make a body ashamed of the…
Slavery: Yes—en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns…
Sleep: There ain't no way to…
Smoking: To cease smoking is the…
Speeches: It usually takes more than…
Teeth: Adam and Eve had many…
Theodore Roosevelt: I always enjoy his society,…
Truth: There was things which he…
Truth: Truth is the most valuable…
United States: There is a sumptuous variety about the New…
Wine: The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine…
Women: Woman is unrivaled as a…
Work: Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is …
Writers: Mark Twain...is interested in…
residence as an example of High Victorian Gothic
Cowardice: There are several good protections against…
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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