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Mark Twain: If to be...

Mark Twain: If to be...

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace...

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Mark Twain: In a museum...

Mark Twain: In a museum...

In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus -- 'one when he was a boy and one when he was a...

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Mark Twain: Kings is mostly...

Mark Twain: Kings is mostly...

Kings is mostly rapscallions.

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-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), US...

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Mark Twain: Let us so...

Mark Twain: Let us so...

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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Mark Twain: It is nobler...

Mark Twain: It is nobler...

It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble!

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Mark Twain: It is by...

Mark Twain: It is by...

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech,...

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Mark Twain: Prosperity is the...

Mark Twain: Prosperity is the...

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...

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Mark Twain: Prosperity is the...

Mark Twain: Prosperity is the...

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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-- Mark Twain,...

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Mark Twain: Nations do not...

Mark Twain: Nations do not...

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their...

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Mark Twain: The cross of...

Mark Twain: The cross of...

The cross of the Legion of Honour has been conferred upon me. However, few escape that...

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Mark Twain: Sometimes too much...

Mark Twain: Sometimes too much...

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

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Mark Twain: Reader, suppose you...

Mark Twain: Reader, suppose you...

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat...

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Mark Twain: The principle of...

Mark Twain: The principle of...

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy -- give one and take ten.

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Mark Twain: The convention missionaries...

Mark Twain: The convention missionaries...

The convention missionaries call modesty has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and...

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Mark Twain: The radical of...

Mark Twain: The radical of...

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

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Mark Twain: The highest perfection...

Mark Twain: The highest perfection...

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and...

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Mark Twain: The trouble with...

Mark Twain: The trouble with...

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't...

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Mark Twain: The right word...

Mark Twain: The right word...

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed...

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Mark Twain: There are two...

Mark Twain: There are two...

There are two forces that can carry light to all corners of the globe -- the sun in the heavens and the Associated...

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Mark Twain: To arrive at...

Mark Twain: To arrive at...

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not...

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