Mark Twain

Mark Twain: Adam and Eve...

Mark Twain: Adam and Eve...

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

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Mark Twain: There was never...

Mark Twain: There was never...

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is...

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Mark Twain: Of all God's...

Mark Twain: 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...

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Mark Twain: But that's always...

Mark Twain: 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...

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Mark Twain: Clothes make the...

Mark Twain: Clothes make the...

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.

Source:...

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Mark Twain: Soap and education...

Mark Twain: Soap and education...

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long...

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Mark Twain: Duties are not...

Mark Twain: Duties are not...

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs...

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Mark Twain: Put all your...

Mark Twain: Put all your...

Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- Watch That Basket.

Source: Pudd'nhead...

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Mark Twain: What, then, is...

Mark Twain: What, then, is...

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. ...

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Mark Twain: There is nothing...

Mark Twain: 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...

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Mark Twain: A man who...

Mark Twain: A man who...

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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Mark Twain: An ecstasy is...

Mark Twain: An ecstasy is...

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

Source: The...

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Mark Twain: War talk by...

Mark Twain: 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...

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Mark Twain: If you pick...

Mark Twain: 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...

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Mark Twain: Courage is resistance...

Mark Twain: Courage is resistance...

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Source:...

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Mark Twain: France has neither...

Mark Twain: France has neither...

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals -- apart from these drawbacks it is a fine...

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Mark Twain: Take your mind...

Mark Twain: Take your mind...

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

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Mark Twain: What is there...

Mark Twain: 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...

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Mark Twain: As a rule...

Mark Twain: As a rule...

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and. . . Europe develops a borrowed American idea...

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Mark Twain: It takes your...

Mark Twain: 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...

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