Mark Twain

Mark Twain: It ain't those...

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...

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Mark Twain: In his private...

Mark Twain: In his private...

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

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-- Mark Twain, (Nov...

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Mark Twain: It is a...

Mark Twain: It is a...

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would...

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Mark Twain: Man is a...

Mark Twain: 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...

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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 could probably...

Mark Twain: It could probably...

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except...

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Mark Twain: Intellectual work is...

Mark Twain: Intellectual work is...

Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest...

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Mark Twain: It is better...

Mark Twain: 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...

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Mark Twain: Man was made...

Mark Twain: Man was made...

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

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-- Mark...

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Mark Twain: Make money and...

Mark Twain: Make money and...

Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.

Source: In...

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Mark Twain: It is a...

Mark Twain: 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...

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Mark Twain: It is a...

Mark Twain: 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,...

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Mark Twain: It is easier...

Mark Twain: It is easier...

It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

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Mark Twain: Morals are an...

Mark Twain: Morals are an...

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with...

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Mark Twain: Man will do...

Mark Twain: Man will do...

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

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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: Laughter is the...

Mark Twain: Laughter is the...

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

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Mark Twain: Most writers regard...

Mark Twain: Most writers regard...

Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its...

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Mark Twain: Martyrdom covers a...

Mark Twain: Martyrdom covers a...

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Source: Notebook, ch. 33, entry for 23 May...

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