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Mark Twain
It ain't those...
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do...
In his private...
In his private heart no man much respects himself.
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-- Mark Twain, (Nov...
It is a...
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would...
Man is a...
Man is a museum of diseases, a home of impurities; he comes today and is gone tomorrow; he begins as dirt and departs...
Let us so...
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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It could probably...
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except...
Intellectual work is...
Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest...
It is better...
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all...
Man was made...
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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-- Mark...
Make money and...
Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.
Source: In...
It is a...
It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're...
It is a...
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,...
It is easier...
It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.
Morals are an...
Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with...
Man will do...
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
It is nobler...
It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble!
It is by...
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech,...
Laughter is the...
Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
Most writers regard...
Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its...
Martyrdom covers a...
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Source: Notebook, ch. 33, entry for 23 May...