Mark Twain

Mark Twain: I can understand...

Mark Twain: I can understand...

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an...

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Mark Twain: The very ink...

Mark Twain: The very ink...

The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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Mark Twain: The first half...

Mark Twain: The first half...

The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance...

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Mark Twain: Don't, like the...

Mark Twain: Don't, like the...

Don't, like the cat, try to get more out of an experience than there is in it. The cat, having sat upon a hot stove...

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Mark Twain: Let us be...

Mark Twain: Let us be...

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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Mark Twain: Humor must not...

Mark Twain: Humor must not...

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live...

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Mark Twain: Don't part with...

Mark Twain: Don't part with...

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to...

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Mark Twain: Truth is stranger...

Mark Twain: Truth is stranger...

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth...

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Mark Twain: Habit is habit,...

Mark Twain: Habit is habit,...

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a...

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Mark Twain: Thousands of geniuses...

Mark Twain: Thousands of geniuses...

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.

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Mark Twain: Between us, we...

Mark Twain: Between us, we...

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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Mark Twain: I must have...

Mark Twain: I must have...

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it...

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Mark Twain: Happiness ain't a...

Mark Twain: Happiness ain't a...

Happiness ain't a thing in itself -- it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. . . . And so, as soon as...

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Mark Twain: There was things...

Mark Twain: There was things...

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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Mark Twain: Let us endeavor...

Mark Twain: Let us endeavor...

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

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Mark Twain: I reverently believe...

Mark Twain: I reverently believe...

I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who...

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Mark Twain: As a thinker...

Mark Twain: As a thinker...

As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts...

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Mark Twain: Any so-called material...

Mark Twain: Any so-called material...

Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content...

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Mark Twain: Do not undervalue...

Mark Twain: Do not undervalue...

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the...

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Mark Twain: Good breeding consists...

Mark Twain: Good breeding consists...

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other...

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