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Mark Twain
Adam and Eve...
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
There was never...
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is...
Of all God's...
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man...
But that's always...
But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got...
Clothes make the...
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
Source:...
Soap and education...
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long...
Duties are not...
Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs...
Put all your...
Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- Watch That Basket.
Source: Pudd'nhead...
What, then, is...
What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. ...
There is nothing...
There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they...
A man who...
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
An ecstasy is...
An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.
Source: The...
War talk by...
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon...
If you pick...
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between...
Courage is resistance...
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.
Source:...
France has neither...
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals -- apart from these drawbacks it is a fine...
Take your mind...
Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.
What is there...
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which...
As a rule...
As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and. . . Europe develops a borrowed American idea...
It takes your...
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other...